“Himalayas”

flowers · industry

This is a common wild orchid that grows from Himachal and Uttarakhand east all the way to Arunachal Pradesh, in the Indian Himalaya. This particular specimen is growing in the New Delhi botanical garden of Wilderness Films India Ltd.

ceremony · hills

Dochula Pass stands an hour and a half away from Thimphu, along a lovely Rhododendron and conifer forest (with trees festooned with orchids) and lies along the highway to central Bhutan, with a road leading to Punakha.

hills

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants.

wildlife · river

Cattle grazing on garden of Misa Polo Club, Assam, India. View of living room of Misa Golf Club in Assam, India. Assam is a state of India in the north-eastern region.

river · temple

The Gangotri temple was built by the Gorkha General Amar Singh Thapa, in the 18th century, is situated on the left bank of Bhagirathi. The temple is nested amidst the beautiful surroundings of deodars and pines.

Uttarakhand·temple · hills

Inside the Gurudwara Hemkund Sahib Ji is a completely different scene, with traditional Sikh decoratings and the holy book, Guru Granth Sahib.

Himachal Pradesh·music · hills

This is the 1st edition of the Himalayan Music Festival 2014 in Dharamshala organized by Ants Entertainment.

Uttarakhand·music · hills

Based in the mountains, Big Gig has its roots in music and represents the community that loves travel, exploration and community work in the Himalayan region.

Uttarakhand·hills · festival

"Mussoorie Writers' EXPERIENCE THE HIMALAYA: A MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL (Nov. 1-4, 2012) celebrated exploration, natural history and mountain culture.

Assam·wildlife

One horned Rhino and Swamp deer as seen during an Elephant Safari in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India.

Assam·wildlife · forest

One of the rarest mammal in the world, one horn Rhino is surviving in the north-east corner of India, Assam i.e. Kaziranga National Park, Assam.

wildlife · forest

A one-horned rhino at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam. The Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), also called the greater one-horned rhinoceros and one-horned Indian rhinoceros, belongs to the Rhinocerotidae family.

West Bengal·ceremony · river

At the end of six days, the idol is taken for immersion in a procession amid loud chants of 'Bolo Durga mai-ki jai' (glory be to Mother Durga') and 'aashchhe bochhor abar hobe' ('it will happen again next year') and drumbeats to the river o…

ceremony · festival

The festival is celebrated by worshipping Goddess Durga who symbolizes positive energy, known as the divine force, and feminine power that is used against the negative forces of the evil. She protects her devotees from these evil forces.

ceremony

Idols being prepared in full gusto for the upcoming Durga Puja celebrations in Delhi. It is a grand festival for most parts of North and East India, but the most fanatically followed in West Bengal.

river

Brigadier Ashok Abbey says "I would like to congratulate you Rupin and the entire Dang family for bringing out this book. You've compiled, you've edited it and I can see some good photographs of Mr. Dang taken by Vibha and Ahilya.

village · sport

Children of Osla village play football in the western Himalaya, India. The wooden temple is an old architectural vestige from ancient Garhwal and the people here actually pray to Duryodhan, a baddie from the Mahabharath era! Nowhere else in…

Nepal·river

Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world. It rises with an elevation of 8,586 m (28,169 ft) in a section of the Himalayas called Kangchenjunga Himal that is limited in the west by the Tamur River and in the east by the Teest…

A lone Red panda in Sikkim, India. The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), also called lesser panda and red cat-bear, is a small arboreal mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China that has been classified as vulnerable by IUCN…

hills · flowers

Thymus linearis or wild ajwain, is a wild Himalayan flowering herb plant that grows close to the ground in the middle altitudes.

Uttarakhand·highway · river

Driving from Dehradun to Roorkee, a beggar with physical handicaps and no limbs has the guts to sit in the middle of a murderously fast and treacherous state highway, begging for alms, with trucks zipping to his left and right.

Nepal·hills

A view of Nagarkot before sunset. Mountains are filled with clouds. The sun slowly goes down, one can notice the sky changing color to yellowish and then orange, the sun looks like a giant star.

West Bengal·highway · hills

Car parking area of Mall Road in the town of Darjeeling, West Bengal. Cars like Wagonr, Bolero, Santro, Innova, etc. are parked. Darjeeling is a town in the Indian state of West Bengal.

river · sport

It is born with the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda merge, the melting snows of the Himalayas feed it's water racing through valleys and deep gorges to the plains of India.