“monsoon”

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.

wildlife · birds

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

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.

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.