“monsoon”

monsoon · hills

What steady focus and concentration, this caterpillar chows down on a ginger leaf, meticulously trying to finish the leaf and damage the plan, to ensure its own existence! What species of caterpillar would this be? A butterfly one, perhaps?…

highway · monsoon

It looks like a hill station in New Delhi itself with incessant rains for a week. Glistening in the drenched highway motorists with umbrellas sitting on a motorcycle. Car wipers motion as they traverse the road in light drizzling rain.

Uttarakhand·hills · monsoon

Lovely sunset and clouds over the mountains to the west, over Benog and Bhadraj, as seen from Landour. Dehra dun can be seen clearly to the south of Mussoorie and the Shivalik hills to the south of Dehradun are clearly visible as well.

monsoon · flowers

Suchitra Krishnamurthy walks with an umbrella above her, in her garden, on monsoon rainfall drops down.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · aerial

An aerial riverine journey up the Ganga at Haridwar town, with the muddy brown monsoon mud-filled waters of the Ganges, and the colourful jam-packed homes, ashrams and shops along the river's commercial religious course...

hills · monsoon

Heavy fog moves through deodar forests in Uttarakhand, India, obscuring dense tree cover during monsoon conditions. Rainfall continues across the mountain landscape, with low visibility and moisture settling on vegetation.

Uttarakhand·forest · monsoon

Is that a slug or a snail? Certainly a mullusc of sorts! A Slimy Snail crawls among a monsoon-ey forest floor around Mussoorie, at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary, its antennae out-stretched for signals from its immediate environment.

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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast that rain in the balance two months of the current monsoon season would also by and large remain good, though it may not be heavy as it has been doing over the past two months.

monsoon · river

Victims row country boats near their houses partialy submerged in flood waters at a village in Uttar Pradesh.

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Its raining...good news for the people in Delhi after the recent heat wave experience. On 5th June 2012 we experienced a pre-monsoon shower that came with such stormy intensity and fury that trees broke and fell and until the rains came do…

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Heavy rain lashes New Delhi city, at the beginning of the monsoon season, with a couple of street urchins enjoying the spread! Most parts of North India, bereft of rains, today reeled under humid conditions and Srinagar witnessed hottest da…

monsoon · hills

What is the species of this beautiful green and brown splotched moth seen in the monsoon time at our Himalayan estate of Pari Tibba in Motidhar, in August 2021?

Madhya Pradesh·forest · river

Ken River (a tributary of Yamuna river), is one of the major rivers of the Bundelkhand region of central India and flows through two states, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

flowers · monsoon

Abrus precatorius, also known as Rosary pea or Ratti is a black and red hard seed that was used to weigh jewellery and gem stones in India, as the seeds had a uniform weight.

forest · monsoon

Misty monsoon takes over the deodar (Cedrus deodara) forest of Devidhura in Uttarakhand.

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Ever noticed a big swarm of millipedes in gardens? These are arthropods with multiple jointed legs. The legs may vary from one individual to the other, Some might have 40 pairs of legs while the others might have more than hundreds.

monsoon · highway

This footage was filmed near Kashmiri Gate, Delhi, documenting severe waterlogging during July 2023 following intense monsoon rainfall and rising water levels near the Yamuna floodplains.

birds · monsoon

Egret feathers almost! White and brown cappuccino monsoon fresh plumes for our Indian Pond Heron at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi. Preening and brushing its wings with its beak is this heron, in a daily ritual of feather hygiene.

monsoon · aerial

A brilliant monsoon sunset with warm evening light in Kerala, as seen from the air.

Rajasthan·monsoon

A Jodhpur monsoon sunset, filmed flying through a pink sky.

monsoon · highway

Heavy rain lashed national capital New Delhi causing massive traffic jams due to waterlogging as vehicles had to negotiate flooded streets which exposed the civic bodies' lack of preparedness.

Uttar Pradesh·river · monsoon

Smoke rises from burning funeral pyres on a rooftop of a temple at the flooded Manikarnika Ghat in Varanasi, India.

Assam·forest · wildlife

Armed Indian forest guards row through the flooded portions of Kaziranga National Park, Assam, during the monsoon season, to check on the safety or the rhino population and to prevent poaching from taking place.

Telangana·monsoon

Fishing inside your own room! That is what is happening here in Hyderabad in Telangana during the monsoon flood in 2020. The resident of the house shows off the fish inside his house.