“monsoon”

highway · bus

Save for the face masks, do you see the Corona effect anywhere in sight? The rush of cars, auto rickshaws, bicycles, buses and pedestrians belies the post lockdown Covid19 fear.

monsoon · river

The overflowing river creates havoc in Himachal Pradesh during the 2020 monsoon. Sights of the destruction and chaos during the floods. Water flowing at dull force and the water levels rising till the residential areas at close levels.

Meghalaya·highway · aerial

Mesmerising visuals of Cherrapunji forests from the sky. The vast forested canyons of Sohra as seen aerially. The forested plunging cliffs from the park which are fed by the monsoon waters are spectacular in the wetter seasons.

bus · highway

In a chilling video from Uttarakhand which has been filmed during the monsoons in 2020 shows a bus and van struggling to get to the other end of the broken road.

flowers · highway

Teak wood's hardness everyone knows about, but do you know of its slight delicate white blooms that grow and flower in large bunches at the end of the monsoon season? The Teak is a prominent hard wood tree in India, but its harvest is now a…

highway · bazaar

Delhi's traffic is legendary and it gets even crazier when it rains like this small glimpse of Yusuf Sarai Market area during the heavy monsoon rains in August 2021. Ambulances shoot past, heading to the hospital district.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

farmland · highway

This southern part of Goa is a mix of paddy fields in post monsoon readiness for harvest, old Portuguese and new Indian style houses, coconut palms, clear open highways (all palm fringed), waterways and water courses, and the odd village wi…

highway · monsoon

Behold the 'Legendary' Delhi traffic back to its old ways post the Corona Lockdown. The Moti Bagh Highway in South Delhi glistening from the water after a monsoon downpour.

highway · wildlife

Roads of New Delhi! A Maruti Gypsy or Suzuki Samuri of the Indian Air Force and a Tata truck of the Indian Army, and a construction or road cleaning crane all negotiate the monsoon flooded roads of Delhi.

Uttar Pradesh·railway · highway

An ith or brick kiln with its tall smoke chimney surrounded by green monsoon agricultural fields in Meerut district of UP state.

monsoon · river

Gange has swollen to danger mark dangerous flooding levels, temples have been submerged to their roof-top levels and flood warnings have been issued as the river eternal flowers brown and angry, full and fast - furious too - like a wide oce…

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...

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.

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…

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.

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…