“Himalayas”

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.

village

Paryang village in Zhongba County, Shigatse in Tibet en route mount Kailash. A red color board with Shi Shapang Ma Hotel written over it in Bhutanese, Chinese and English. One can see the prayer flags and the Himalayas in the backdrop.

hills · festival

Sounds of tranquility - Buddhist monks chant whilst holding lit up candles. A wonderful sound. Hemis is an idyllic village in Ladakh, in Northern India . The town is just over 40 km southeast of the town of Leh.

hills

Clouds above mud - mountains of Ladakh in time lapse. Ladakh ("land of high passes") is a region in disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir that currently extends from the Kuen Lun mountain range to the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabi…

hills

Time lapse of clouds moving slow in the morning sky - in Ladakh. Ladakh is a region of India in the state of Jammu and Kashmir that extends from the Karakoram Range in the north to the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people…

hills

Time lapse of clouds moving slow in the morning sky - in Ladakh. Ladakh is a region of India in the state of Jammu and Kashmir that extends from the Karakoram Range in the north to the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people…

hills

Driving on the snow covered roads of Ladakh in Kashmir, India. Ladakh is a region of India in the state of Jammu and Kashmir that extends from the Karakoram Range in the north to the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people of…

Group of birds in Ladakh. The Pied Magpie is eating flesh from the dead yak, as is the wild cat, but the group of Chukor (Alectoris chukar) partridge are just roaming around the fields, looking for grain and grass seeds.

hills · livestock

Bharals grazing in high himalayan mountains of Ladakh, Kashmir, India. The Bharal , also known as the Blue Sheep, is a high mountain sheep that is the primary prey of Snow Leopards.

river · architecture

Suspension bridge over Rangeet River in Sikkim. Rangeet River, Indian RiverRangeet River is a tributary of the Teesta River, the largest river in the Sikkim state of India. Rangeet River is also spelled as ‘Rangit River’.