“monsoon”

monsoon · industry

Rain water harvesting is a key component of construction in India today. With drought looming in the future summer months for India, and prolific monsoon and mid-winter rainfall, collecting excess rain water can only be a smart move.

Madhya Pradesh·river · wildlife

Driving across the bridge of the monsoon swollen brown watered Ken River - even flooded - one comes to the entrance gate of Panna National Park in Madla. Turn to one side and you enter the Ken River Lodge through Madla village.

monsoon · highway

Flood waters drain out from storm water drain, all muddy and energetic. UP state was hit by flooding in the monsoon season. Dams were over-flowing and had to let the excess water flow out. A Firozabad police station stands flooded.

hills · snow

Porters and team members assemble tents on a rocky glacial shelf above the main Raj Parav glacier in Garhwal, en route the Kalindi Khal pass trek in the western Himalaya.

farmland · wildlife

Greater Coucal with its smart black attire, rufous wing and ruby red eye, seen at Wilderness Orchard in the New Delhi spring, with Californian Poppies in flower and a breeding season bird call round from a male Magpie Robin.

Ladakh·river · highway

A road working crew betters the road from Saspul-Nimmo sangam confluence junction of Indus and Zanskar rivers, to Chilling from where the Chadar trek starts to Padum / Padam in Zanskar.

coastline · boats

Fishermen with their wooden canoes on Korlai Beach in Maharashtra. The murky sea in the monsoon season rushes towards the beach while young boys walk with the day's catch.

wildlife · birds

Perfectly camouflaged among the green leaves, this Tailor Bird starts out as a mass of jumbled cotton fiber among the leaves, but soon the form begins to come together and take shape.

forest · river

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

highway · politics

A water tanker is chased down as it slows to a stop, by slum dwellers and road-side poor in north India. Women and children chase after it with plastic water containers to collect water for their home needs.

hills · farmland

Ooty, Tamil Nadu: Ootacamund hill station seen from air, with red lateritic soil, green tea gardens.

hills · river

Frogs in a well try to crawl out, slip back on algae: Life in frog well, analogy with life in India! What frog species is this middle Himalayan altitude mendhak? We filmed this at our wildfilmsindia wetlands in the middle Himalaya, around P…

coastline · highway

Stunning visuals of Korlai Beach in Murud, Maharashtra. The monsoon gray skies and rains have brought lush vegetation to the small Western Ghats hillocks near the coast.

monsoon

Only in Maharashtra - stand along the rim of a monsoon dam, hold out your fishing bamboo pole with an atta ball as a lure on your fishing hook, wear a rain coat, and wait for the fish to bite as they head to fall over the dam's edge! The fi…

Hornbill nests in the heart of New Delhi: That cute little beak tip sticking out belongs to the growing chick Hornbills nest in hollow tree trunks, closing up cavities with wet mud that dries, enclosing the female inside, to lay and incubat…

railway · hills

The Toy train of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway winds so slowly through Ghoom and Kurseong that pedestrians walk on the train track, and just step aside for the train to pass, and then casually step back onto the train tracks! See a drive…

A brown and white dappled Tom cat sits atop a fenced wall and takes a cat nap, in the balmy warm post monsoon sun one afternoon in New Delhi.

hills

The Presidential palace of Rashtrapati Bhavan sits atop Raisina Hill n New Delhi. Raisina Hill is a small Delhi Ridge Aravalli range promontary, flanked by South and North blocks which house defence and government offices in Delhi.

Uttarakhand·hills · river

1300 year old bones and skulls lie scatted at this 16, 500 foot high altitude western Himalayan Roopkund lake in the shadow of Trishul peak. A rare aerial peek into this grisly sight in a beautiful but rough Himalayan ablation valley.

Even though piped CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) that is now billed per usage is now the cooking medium of choice in larger Indian cities, many still rely on the good old Indian gas cylinder that gets carried around on trucks, cycle rickshaws…

highway

What variegated colour this traffic jam features! From oranges and yellows, to greens, blues, whites and pinks...

highway

As the traffic on the Ring Road in Delhi moves along abruptly and noisily below, this Crow couple successfully broods its chicks as they open their red gapes wide to get the parents to stuff food in...

highway

Slip sliding away: Sikkim's muddy roads in summer-time early rainy season, with traffic jams aplenty, en route from the south of Sikkim to central Sikkim.

Uttarakhand·hills · river

1300 year old bones and skulls lie scatted at this 16, 500 foot high altitude western Himalayan Roopkund lake in the shadow of Trishul peak.