“monsoon”

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…

highway · monsoon

Behold the 'Legendary' Delhi traffic back to its old ways post the Corona Lockdown. The Moti Bagh Highway in South Delhi glistening from the water after a monsoon downpour.

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.

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…

farmland · monsoon

Rat snake is a farmer's friend: Dhaman snake slithers around all active and on the hunt in Delhi monsoon.

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…

Uttar Pradesh·railway · highway

Stacks of baked orange bricks lie near a bhatti kiln in north India, with the chimney itself ironically made of bricks! What lovely kheti all around, in monsoon greenery and profusion...