“monsoon”

Karnataka·monsoon · highway

Sights of destruction on the streets of Bengaluru after heavy late monsoon rains lashed the western Indian State. A red car can be seen floating down the road in the flooded neighbourhood.

monsoon · architecture

Everything looks submerged here at a village in Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh. Even the bridge over a canal is not spared as a man cycles across the flooded bridge. The entire village landscape is lost in the murky monsoon floodwater.

boats · monsoon

Ferry boats moving on a flooded river in West Bengal during the monsoon. The river brimming with water as residents on one side are ferried to the other as fears of a flood after heavy rains and remnants of Cyclone Amphan in the coastal are…

wildlife · birds

The Sarus crane is the tallest flying bird in the world standing 152-156 cm tall with a wingspan of 240cm. It has a predominantly grey plumage with a naked red head and upper neck and pale red legs.

temple · monsoon

Take a virtual walk around the Lonad Shiv Temple in Thane, Maharashtra. Unkempt, dilapidated and with dried up vegetation growth on the pillars and the rock carvings. Algal blooms on the walls inside the temple.

hills · snow

A lone yellow tent with smaller tents pitched on the ablation valley along a glacial shelf with the glacier separated by just a small ridge. A small glacial melt water lake is located at the edge of the moraine.

Madhya Pradesh·river · monsoon

Taking in entire forested islands and vast tracts of forest trees, the Ken River far exceeds its banks with a mass of floodwaters during the monsoon of 2019, in the Panna National Park region, and the Ken Crocodile Sanctuary area.

coastline · monsoon

A tropical Arabian Sea storm kicks in to Kochi harbour, along the Kerala coast and close to the Indian Ocean, as ships make a hasty exit from the harbour. Rains and wind batter the coastline in this late monsoon phenomenon.

highway · monsoon

The Corona Lockdown of more than two months and Delhi is finding ways to cope with the new normalcy of physical distancing and wearing masks wherever it is.

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.

wildlife · birds

A juvenile common hawk-cuckoo or Brainfever bird perches on a dry bamboo as it waits to be fed my a long tailed-shrike (Lanius schach). The long tailed-shrike comes flying down with a caterpillar between its beak to feed the cuckoo.

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.

farmland · monsoon

This brown slithering creature is a lovely reptilian creation, and a harmless snake at that: Dhaman Rat Snake. The nest time you see one, please don't scream for help or out of fear, or encourage or allow anyone to harm this fellow.

wildlife · birds

Darzi chidiya: Common Tailor Bird seen at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi is a universally known bird The Tailor Bird completes the nest and then begins to incubate its eggs, after laying them...

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.

wildlife · birds

Common Tailor Bird stitches its nest with elan: India's darzi chidiya also known as Orthotomus sutorius for sutures that it makes.

wildlife · birds

A Darzi chidiya creates sutures to expertly stitch together its leaf nest. Expertly and deftly weaving the cotton fibers it has collected from plants and leaves, this Tailor Bird makes little holes in two Teak tree leaves that it has brough…

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…

Uttarakhand·monsoon

Dark grey Bush Chat chicks hatch in a nest made on the ground itself, at the foot of a clump of flowering lilies, against all safety conventions and concerns about ground predators and monsoon rain water flow.

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.

wildlife · birds

The Sarus crane is the tallest flying bird in the world standing 152-156 cm tall with a wingspan of 240cm. It has a predominantly grey plumage with a naked red head and upper neck and pale red legs.

hills · snow

The monsoon system retreats from the Himalaya, dumping down one last time in the form of the season's first heavy snowfall at high altitudes.

coastline · monsoon

What a fun aerial view of the Arabian sea coast of Goa in India, with monsoon clouds turning blue-black with rain engorgement, in the backdrop.

coastline · monsoon

Goa has a way of loosening peoples' inhibitions and making them feel at ease. What is it about Goa that makes people go wild and do reckless silly fun things? What a fun aerial view of the Arabian sea coast of Goa in India, with monsoon clo…