“monsoon”

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Women of the cow belt of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar take a religious dip into the Jumna nadi of Delhi, on the ghats built for Chhat Puje observance where they pray to the sun god, at the end of the monsoon season.

Karnataka·monsoon · highway

Sights of destruction on the streets of Bengaluru after heavy late monsoon rains lashed the western Indian State. A red car can be seen floating down the road in the flooded neighbourhood.

monsoon · architecture

Everything looks submerged here at a village in Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh. Even the bridge over a canal is not spared as a man cycles across the flooded bridge. The entire village landscape is lost in the murky monsoon floodwater.

boats · monsoon

Ferry boats moving on a flooded river in West Bengal during the monsoon. The river brimming with water as residents on one side are ferried to the other as fears of a flood after heavy rains and remnants of Cyclone Amphan in the coastal are…

river · temple

Hindu women wearing sarees and men pray at the Kaal Bharoan / Kal Bhairav Temple along the Yamuna river near ITO, in New Delhi.

village · river

A woman's job is already a balancing act! But add water woes to the equation, and you have a head full of pots to take care of, fetching them from the stream source and all the way back to the home kitchen.

As young White-breasted Waterhen chicks follow their Jalmurghi mother around, a covey of Teetar parents with their young brood forage for grass seeds in an open grassland at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi.

wildlife · birds

The Sarus crane is the tallest flying bird in the world standing 152-156 cm tall with a wingspan of 240cm. It has a predominantly grey plumage with a naked red head and upper neck and pale red legs.

Madhya Pradesh·fort

Who would have imagined that Gwalior has turned into such a large crowded urban space...? Sheltered by the plateau of Gwalior Fort and the Scindia School, the city has proliferated below, with rampant construction.

temple · monsoon

Take a virtual walk around the Lonad Shiv Temple in Thane, Maharashtra. Unkempt, dilapidated and with dried up vegetation growth on the pillars and the rock carvings. Algal blooms on the walls inside the temple.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · snow

Spiti Valley, surrounded on all sides by the soaring snowy mountain walls of the high Himalaya, Spiti is situated India’s northern border with Tibet in the state of Himachal Pradesh.

hills · snow

A lone yellow tent with smaller tents pitched on the ablation valley along a glacial shelf with the glacier separated by just a small ridge. A small glacial melt water lake is located at the edge of the moraine.

hills · river

Summit ridge of White Peak, Bandarpunch, on a clear winter's day, as seen from Bamsaru Khal As the clouds clear, the peak of Bandarpunch is revealed in all its glory, in the Garhwal Himalaya range, as the wildfimsindia team treks beyond Dod…

Uttarakhand·flowers

Autumn time marks the end of the monsoon and winter is not yet upon us. In this brief interlude, the Cosmos flowers planted some 200 years ago by the British go crazy as they are run wild and self seeded on the wildfilmsindia hill slopes be…

Madhya Pradesh·river · monsoon

Taking in entire forested islands and vast tracts of forest trees, the Ken River far exceeds its banks with a mass of floodwaters during the monsoon of 2019, in the Panna National Park region, and the Ken Crocodile Sanctuary area.

Bhutan·hills

Jomolhari - The mountain (ri) of the Goddess (lha) Jomo, can be seen from Jele-la (la or pass) that connects Paro and Ha in Bhutan. It is also spelled as Cheli la, Jele la or Chele la.

hills · aerial

An aerial view of Weinia Falls, a spectacular natural wonder located in the West Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya, India, showcases the powerful flow of the Kynshi River as it cascades down steep, lush green cliffs into a deep gorge.

hills

Clouds speed up the Agoda valley beyond Uttarakashi, bringing in winter moisture and winds, in the already snowed over fields and hillsides of the western Himalaya, leading to a total white wipe-out.

forest

A wild Ivy type creeper climbs an old Horse Chestnut tree at wildfilmsindia's Jabbarkhet Himalayan forest in Uttarakhand.

river · ceremony

In post monsoon cold water, women and men from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar come and pray to the sun god, for Chhat Puja, offering fruit, coconuts and flowers in a thali.

Ladakh·river · highway

Alluvial Fan with deep grooves created from the flow of water looks prominent along the Zanskar river in Ladakh.

birds

Rose-ringed Parakeet on a Bakain or Persian Lilac tree in Delhi. The common Tota uses its beak as a third leg, to perambulate among branches, especially in this windy monsoon weather.

boats · sport

What colour and cultural pageantry from the south of India, with sporting action and pleasing sights for the eye! See the long snakeboats as they line up at the start line to shoot off at the start of the race.

lake · flowers

Trypophobia alert! Mature seed pod of a Bhartiya Kamal or Lotus, ready to expel the seeds into the pond.