“monsoon”

monsoon

Delhi roads simply cannot take excess rain, poor drainage does them in, bikes and cars struggle through ponds of water on the roads.

birds

That cute red head popping out of the nest is the Barbet male peering out at the world from within...

Rishikesh, Uttarakhand·railway · highway

One approaches the Sakoti Tanda railway line from the Delhi side and then climbs onto a flyover that goes across the train line.

highway · monsoon

Two of the women are busy smoking in the usual Indian way, not holding the cigarette or bidi between the first two fingers but between the circle of the closed thumb and their palms, smoking through the hand tunnel that this creates! This s…

river · ceremony

Women from the Bihar-Uttar Pradesh belt celebrate Chhat puja at the end of the monsoon season. They lay out garlands made of marigold flowers and sit by the Yamuna river in Delhi.

monsoon · highway

Along flyovers in particular and where draining is poor or drains and sewers have been blocked by malba and mud, Delhi city seems to go under these areas, with accumulated rain water.

wildlife · birds

The delicate monsoon-time leaf buds of the Ficus benghalensis of Barh tree look fresh even as the green leaves next door look shiny, in this lovely vision.

wildlife · birds

A juvenile Indian Grey Hornbill is dozing in Delhi in peak summer/monsoon. With a less developed casque the bird sits on a small branch with its beak wide open.

river · boats

The winter calm belies the monsoon fury of this river. The wide expanse is a joy to boat up and down, fish in, and walk along the numerous small islands of.

highway · river

An train crosses the Red Fort bridge as monsoon flood river waters recede, and traffic reclaims the ancient waterway as a road, after having briefly functioned as a river course after centuries of road use! Train crosses Red Fort bridge as…

aerial · hills

What fabulous landscape in Mizoram! Calm green verdant valley of rice cultivation flanked by thick evergreen drippy forests, narrow mountain roads, gentle rolling hills ad a wonderful rustic bucolic ruralness in India's Mizoram.

coastline · monsoon

Goa actually has a wild wilderness side to it, with bird sanctuaries, estuaries, secluded coasts and rivers with wooded banks.

Himachal Pradesh·river · hills

A crowded residential over-built area on the true left bank of the Beas river in Manali. Monsoon mist and cloud cover drives in over the multi-storeyed fairly haphazard buildings with older apple orchards beyond.

A shell less air-breathing gastropod found in gardens and are a pest to food crops. Members of this genus are found even in aquatic conditions.

Uttarakhand·highway · architecture

A major connecting bridge between Dehradun and the Rishikesh-Haridwar-Doiwala corridor collapsed due to incessant rains in the monsoon of 2021.

highway · monsoon

Even though the city invariably gets adequate notice and warning to prepare its sewage systems and storm-water drains alongside arterial roads, each monsoon or heavy rainfall sees Delhi go down under with massive amount of flooding on our r…

monsoon · farmland

Cars, ambulances, two wheelers, CNG low-floor buses, three-wheeler auto rickshaw tuk-tuks and sundry other vehicle types power through accumulated monsoon rain water near AIIMS flyover underpass in South Delhi.

farmland · hills

A broad and mildly sloping Ganga river valley in middle Garhwal leads to the upper Alaknanda Ganga valley village regions of Wan and further up to Joshimath.

birds · wildlife

Is this Bagla spreading its wings to balance or to frighten fish out of their hiding spots? See the successful monsoon fishing strategy at work! Spotted in gushing water alone, an adult Little Egret or Egretta garzetta is fishing in a runni…

birds · highway

The Pied Mynas seem to be oblivious of the maddening honking and the myna calls during sunset.

wildlife · birds

Hear the lovely kurr-kurr call of the Sarus Crane! The Sarus crane is the tallest flying bird in the world standing 152-156 cm tall with a wingspan of 240cm.

birds · hills

Verditer Flycatcher has a lovely trilling call, male is deep sky blue while female is a lighter blue Deep sky blue Verditer Flycatcher at wildfilmsindia Motidhar bird sanctuary: A prettier Himalayan bird there isn't! Verditer Flycatcher qui…

flowers

Torch Lily flowers or Red Hot Pokers start out orange and turn a deeper orange-red at wildfilmsindia Motidhar Birds and bees love the nectar on our Kniphofia flowers in the western Himalaya! With a Grey-winged Blackbird calling, it is summ…

monsoon · bazaar

Local people prepare a bunded embankment of sand bags to prevent the ingres of monsoon flood waters from the Jamna nadi into the Monastery Market and Tibetan Colony in Kashmiri Gate as Old Delhi gets flooded by the rising Yamuna river.