“monsoon”

A Checkered Keelback Snake eats a frog in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan, as seen in this rare view in the middle of a late monsoon night... Drama from Wild India, truly. A snake eats a frog on camera at Jawai in Rajasthan.

coastline · monsoon

What a fun aerial view of the Arabian sea coast of Goa in India, with monsoon clouds turning blue-black with rain engorgement, in the backdrop.

coastline · monsoon

Goa has a way of loosening peoples' inhibitions and making them feel at ease. What is it about Goa that makes people go wild and do reckless silly fun things? What a fun aerial view of the Arabian sea coast of Goa in India, with monsoon clo…

farmland · highway

This southern part of Goa is a mix of paddy fields in post monsoon readiness for harvest, old Portuguese and new Indian style houses, coconut palms, clear open highways (all palm fringed), waterways and water courses, and the odd village wi…

highway · monsoon

Behold the 'Legendary' Delhi traffic back to its old ways post the Corona Lockdown. The Moti Bagh Highway in South Delhi glistening from the water after a monsoon downpour.

highway · wildlife

Roads of New Delhi! A Maruti Gypsy or Suzuki Samuri of the Indian Air Force and a Tata truck of the Indian Army, and a construction or road cleaning crane all negotiate the monsoon flooded roads of Delhi.

river · birds

Help us identify this Bittern that we filmed on a roadside wetland in Uttar Pradesh. This surely is not a or Striated Heron or Little Heron, is it? A Striated Heron (Butorides striata) also known as Little Heron is busy looking for prey in…

coastline

Mandva Beach in Alibag or Alibaug in Maharashtra filmed in monsoon. Grayish skies and a deserted beach with long wooden walkways into Konkan Coast. Palm trees surrounding the embankment on one side. The beach looks too clean to be true.

Kerala

A row of well-lit Vistara aircraft stand at the parking bays of Delhi airport. Arrival into Kochi airport at the excellent airport terminal there, shortly after the flooding of the monsoon of 2018, when everything had been repaired.

forest · river

Beels and wetlands, hyacinth islands and real ones, marshes and waterways, all along the mighty Brahmaputra river in Assam.

Crowd converges at Evergreen Sweet House in Green Park for diwali mithai in Delhi's festive season, as the weather changes, the mood improves and the monsoons are out of our lives, even if the air pollution is peaking! Green Park folks and…

birds · wildlife

Kotwal chidiya or Grey Drongo has a ruby red eye, a forked tail and bluish-grey plumage that makes it stand out and be most visible, especially as it sits on vantage points and the tops of trees, in our middle hills in the western Himalaya.…

Uttar Pradesh·railway · highway

An ith or brick kiln with its tall smoke chimney surrounded by green monsoon agricultural fields in Meerut district of UP state.

flowers

A pond covered in leaves and stem of lotus flower and water lilies is filmed during the monsoon in Odisha. Large aquatic leaves floating on the surface of the water and the nearby area.

monsoon · river

Gange has swollen to danger mark dangerous flooding levels, temples have been submerged to their roof-top levels and flood warnings have been issued as the river eternal flowers brown and angry, full and fast - furious too - like a wide oce…

farmland · flowers

A walk inside a banana farm in Maharashtra. After the rains, the leaves look fresh and lush. Healthy stalks of bananas, flowers are seen up close. This is one of the many banana plantations in the Western Ghats as seen in monsoon.

Uttar Pradesh·aerial · architecture

Phalanx of buildings: Jaypee Klassic Cosmos Sector 134 high rise buildings in Noida: Aerial view of Delhi NCR city.

farmland · monsoon

Rat snake is a farmer's friend: Dhaman snake slithers around all active and on the hunt in Delhi monsoon.

river · monsoon

Flooded Yamuna River takes back its flood plains and threatens to claim more of its stolen and historically lost territory, in Delhi, near Signature Bridge and Loha Pul Old Railway bridge: When nature claims back its own! Old ownership is n…

Uttar Pradesh·railway · highway

Stacks of baked orange bricks lie near a bhatti kiln in north India, with the chimney itself ironically made of bricks! What lovely kheti all around, in monsoon greenery and profusion...

architecture

Rescuers and residents of a five-story building in Maharashtra's Raigad district collapse after days of heavy rainfall during the monsoons in 2020.

village

The early visitor of 2020 monsoons leaves trails of damage and loss in its path in Nadia district of West Bengal. The border areas of West Bengal faces loss of lives, destruction of property in the wake of Cyclone Amphan.

birds · wildlife

A pair of Pied Myna or Asian Pied Starling (Gracupica contra or Sturnus contra contra) is seen sitting on top of a Banyan tree in Delhi during the monsoon. Pied Mynas are one of the common birds in urban areas.

highway

The chicks open their red gapes helping the parents aim the food morsels inside their hungry and open gullets. The nest becomes a crowded space as the chicks vie for attention, food and shelter from their kauwa mom and dad.