“monsoon”

industry · wildlife

A Grey Partridge on an Aravalli native tree. Ranthambhor National Park and Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan, Mahavir Vanasthali garden in Delhi and Aravalli stone mining: Archival footage from 1990's.

coastline · monsoon

A tropical Arabian Sea storm kicks in to Kochi harbour, along the Kerala coast and close to the Indian Ocean, as ships make a hasty exit from the harbour. Rains and wind batter the coastline in this late monsoon phenomenon.

Uttar Pradesh·railway

A train journey to India's north Indian heartland. A fast train zips towards Allahabad Prayagraj.

village · farmland

We drive past Railway level crossings, see stylised water tanks, agricultural fields, open roads, past waterways and grasslands, poplar-lined fields, lush green patches of farming, tube wells, village brick walls, electric poles, past a mot…

village · forest

A ride inside the dirt roads of rural Goa on a gloomy autumn evening. Dirt roads damp from a slight shower, trees, fark clouds with the remnants of the monsoon.

highway · monsoon

The Corona Lockdown of more than two months and Delhi is finding ways to cope with the new normalcy of physical distancing and wearing masks wherever it is.

highway · bus

Save for the face masks, do you see the Corona effect anywhere in sight? The rush of cars, auto rickshaws, bicycles, buses and pedestrians belies the post lockdown Covid19 fear.

industry

Sonia Vihar water treatment plant in New Delhi. The water treatment plant has 3 pre-settling tanks which are used for raw water with high turbidity during the monsoons. spread over 35 acres of reclaimed land, is completely computerized.

monsoon · river

The overflowing river creates havoc in Himachal Pradesh during the 2020 monsoon. Sights of the destruction and chaos during the floods. Water flowing at dull force and the water levels rising till the residential areas at close levels.

Extolling the virtues of his Eugenia fruit, an Indian man sells Jamun or Black plum on a street in Delhi, India.

school · farmland

What a lovely place to go to school, on a sprawling campus around Alwar in Rajasthan, with ample fields, an old heritage building, all among groves of trees.

Uttar Pradesh·bus

There is a strange sense of order in this image of urban congestion and crowding in Meerut city in Uttar Pradesh state.

wildlife · birds

A juvenile common hawk-cuckoo or Brainfever bird perches on a dry bamboo as it waits to be fed my a long tailed-shrike (Lanius schach). The long tailed-shrike comes flying down with a caterpillar between its beak to feed the cuckoo.

wildlife · birds

Camouflaged in the mud, this titar family is enjoying it's time in the mud at the wildfilmsindia preserve in Delhi...

flowers · birds

Even as a Purple Sunbird displays its brilliant breeding season feathers on Hamelia patens flowers, the monsoon rains hit north India, and brown puddles of mud form all around.

Meghalaya·highway · aerial

Mesmerising visuals of Cherrapunji forests from the sky. The vast forested canyons of Sohra as seen aerially. The forested plunging cliffs from the park which are fed by the monsoon waters are spectacular in the wetter seasons.

An expert mechanic cum electricals expert does his magic on a tired old sewage water pump which had a seizure in the monsoon rains and needs a new lease of life! A three phase 5 KVA Kirloskar underground sewage tank motor pump gets repaired…

bus · highway

In a chilling video from Uttarakhand which has been filmed during the monsoons in 2020 shows a bus and van struggling to get to the other end of the broken road.

forest

A landscape so vast and primaeval that it immediately brings to mind thoughts of the African Rift valley or other vast geographies of the region - perhaps the Congo basin! This is not the Okavango draining the non-existent top soil of the K…

wildlife · birds

What fungus species is that orange one growing on a fallen wooden log in the Delhi monsoon? A sequence of urban wildlife in Delhi, India shows varied species and behaviors across a single landscape.

Sohra, Meghalaya·hills · aerial

Flower field in Cherrapunji, Meghalaya showcases a serene landscape filled with tall grasses, wild orchids, and clusters of Himalayan balsam blooming across the open meadow.

farmland · monsoon

This brown slithering creature is a lovely reptilian creation, and a harmless snake at that: Dhaman Rat Snake. The nest time you see one, please don't scream for help or out of fear, or encourage or allow anyone to harm this fellow.

birds · hills

Sitting on a dead deodar tree branch, this most beautiful sky blue bird in the Himalaya is the Verditer Flycatcher as it trills out its call in the summer breeding season.

wildlife · birds

Darzi chidiya: Common Tailor Bird seen at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi is a universally known bird The Tailor Bird completes the nest and then begins to incubate its eggs, after laying them...