“monsoon”

Telangana·highway

The visuals of devastation in Hyderabad after the 2020 monsoon floods. A parking lot is completely destroyed. Take a look at the eroded concrete with cars and trucks parked near it.

monsoon · railway

Andhra Pradesh experienced one of the worst flash floods in 2020 towards the end of the monsoon. Multiple places in the city were flooded as heavy rains lashed the south Indian state.

birds · wildlife

Birds of Jhalana: Jhalana is home to a lot of bird species. And almost an equal number come here for monsoons and for breeding.

wildlife · birds

Common Tailor Bird stitches its nest with elan: India's darzi chidiya also known as Orthotomus sutorius for sutures that it makes.

wildlife · birds

A Darzi chidiya creates sutures to expertly stitch together its leaf nest. Expertly and deftly weaving the cotton fibers it has collected from plants and leaves, this Tailor Bird makes little holes in two Teak tree leaves that it has brough…

hills · highway

Adimali Hills laced with a thin layer of clouds looks spectacular from the sky during sunset. Water bodies between the small hillocks and valleys and highway running between the valley.

Maharashtra·hills · railway

A walk inside a forest in Matheran Hill Station in Maharashtra. Located in one of the few rainforest areas in India, this hill station in the Western Ghats is a favourite destination doe hikers and adventure lovers for a quick break from th…

farmland · river

A lush green landscape dotted with paddy fields and swollen streams. A monsoon stream with a bridge running across., in the outlying Western Ghats - Sahyadri belt.

Madhya Pradesh·forest · river

What a lovely play of clouds in motion, as we fly over the Ken River in central India. The brown muddy swollen monsoon waters give way to lush green tiger forests on both sides, even as one can look for magar crocs and gharials in the water…

highway · politics

The Government provides water tankers refilled from ground water, to fulfill the basic needs to road-side dwellers who work the streets, as vendors.

wildlife · birds

Chicks beg for food from their parents, orange gapes open and quivering, even as one chick fledges and drops from the nest...

Kerala·boats · aerial

Alappuzha, Punnamada Lake Nehru boat race aerial view of stunning green vistas in bright monsoon light: Kerala network of waterways, estuaries, backwaters A modest boat jetty along Kerala's waterways, with houses and farmlands attached and…

Uttarakhand·monsoon

Dark grey Bush Chat chicks hatch in a nest made on the ground itself, at the foot of a clump of flowering lilies, against all safety conventions and concerns about ground predators and monsoon rain water flow.

farmland

Nashpati, naak or Pear fruit ripens on the tree in Delhi's Wilderness Orchard, in the summer heat and monsoon humidity! Yes, fruit orchards exist in Delhi!

In the sweltering hat of the Indian summer-monsoon, Indian Army officers and jawans stand at the Palam air base in Delhi, in order to honour the lives lost in the Kargil war with Pakistan.

Big bad Ravana effigies get created, painted and sold on the roadside in West Delhi, to be carted home and burned up with fire crackers, to show the literal destruction of evil! Ravan represents the baddie party, essentially.

flowers · industry

This Yucca aloifolia or Yucca flower stands almost 6ft high, full of whitish colored flower. The stem covered with buds of flowers weighs almost around 4kgs.

highway · monsoon

One needs a tough SUV to battle Delhi's monsoon drenched roads! Cars passing a flooded part on the AIIMS Road highway. Water splashing on both sides of the vehicles as the vehicles speed past the waterlogged stretch.

hills · livestock

Cattle herders from Sukhi Village, Uttarakhand graze their cattle in the Upper Son Gad Valley during the autumn season. This will be the last graze for these cattle up in the cold valley near the Garhwal Himalaya.

fort

A virtual glimpse of the red sandstone Zafar Mahal inside the Red Fort in New Delhi. A panning view of the surrounding lawns and the marble pavilions of Sawan and Bhadon.

desert

Free-wheeling Pariah Kites - raptors in their own right - but otherwise also the most urban and scavenging ones in India, are seen here in the Rajasthan desert sky.

highway

A couple of Yellow-footed Green Pigeon sits on a Banyan tree branch outside our office complex. The rush of fruits on the Banyan Tree after the monsoon rains must have attracted these green pigeons.

birds · wildlife

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

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.