“monsoon”

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.

wildlife · birds

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

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.

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.