“monsoon”

boats · sport

What colour and cultural pageantry from the south of India, with sporting action and pleasing sights for the eye! See the long snakeboats as they line up at the start line to shoot off at the start of the race.

village · farmland

We drive past Railway level crossings, see stylised water tanks, agricultural fields, open roads, past waterways and grasslands, poplar-lined fields, lush green patches of farming, tube wells, village brick walls, electric poles, past a mot…

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.

river · aerial

Zophai on the Assam border with Mizoram: stunning aerial view of Tuirial river, tributary of Barak River.

boats · sport

What a sight from the skies! Competing hand-made wooden snake boats races race each other in the waters of Punnamada Lake in Kerala, in a years-old tradition that is held towards the end of the monsoon season.

Uttarakhand·river

Patiently walking along the banks of the Jumna nadi is this villager from the bearby Aglar Junction bazaar, as he fishes for mahseer and local fish species, in the fast flowing pre-monsoon Yamuna river.

Uttarakhand·river

With fresh baskets, nets and trapping tools, these village men drink water from a small stream waterfall en route the Aglar river where the Maund Mela is to be held.

Kerala·flowers · forest

Among the Cardamom plantations of Munnar in Kerala, this waterfall dashes down a friendly rock face, with unidentified purpose flowers growing in its wake.

livestock · river

Clear canals brimming with water from the monsoon, such a relief for the buffalos and young boys frolicking in the water. A trio of women in colourful clothing riding on a buffalo cart on the way home.

monsoon · railway

Andhra Pradesh experienced one of the worst flash floods in 2020 towards the end of the monsoon. Multiple places in the city were flooded as heavy rains lashed the south Indian state.

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.

Madhya Pradesh·forest · river

What a lovely play of clouds in motion, as we fly over the Ken River in central India. The brown muddy swollen monsoon waters give way to lush green tiger forests on both sides, even as one can look for magar crocs and gharials in the water…

Kerala·boats · aerial

Alappuzha, Punnamada Lake Nehru boat race aerial view of stunning green vistas in bright monsoon light: Kerala network of waterways, estuaries, backwaters A modest boat jetty along Kerala's waterways, with houses and farmlands attached and…

Madhya Pradesh·river

A calm bird sits calmly before a frothing roaring Ken river in its full monsoon glory! A Laughing dove or Little Brown Dove (Spilopelia senegalensis) sits on a rock next to a roaring water body in Panna.

river · ceremony

In the sweltering post monsoon season in north India, Purvanchali Hindu women devotees - aomost decked up in bridal finery - perform Chhath Puja on banks of polluted Yamuna river in New Delhi, worshipping the sun god.

river · birds

Help us identify this Bittern that we filmed on a roadside wetland in Uttar Pradesh. This surely is not a or Striated Heron or Little Heron, is it? A Striated Heron (Butorides striata) also known as Little Heron is busy looking for prey in…

forest · river

Beels and wetlands, hyacinth islands and real ones, marshes and waterways, all along the mighty Brahmaputra river in Assam.

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…

river · monsoon

Flooded Yamuna River takes back its flood plains and threatens to claim more of its stolen and historically lost territory, in Delhi, near Signature Bridge and Loha Pul Old Railway bridge: When nature claims back its own! Old ownership is n…

river · ceremony

Women from the Bihar-Uttar Pradesh belt celebrate Chhat puja at the end of the monsoon season. They lay out garlands made of marigold flowers and sit by the Yamuna river in Delhi.

river · boats

The winter calm belies the monsoon fury of this river. The wide expanse is a joy to boat up and down, fish in, and walk along the numerous small islands of.

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…

aerial · hills

What fabulous landscape in Mizoram! Calm green verdant valley of rice cultivation flanked by thick evergreen drippy forests, narrow mountain roads, gentle rolling hills ad a wonderful rustic bucolic ruralness in India's Mizoram.