“monsoon”

village · monsoon

Innocent young boys and girls posing in front of the camera along with their much younger siblings. A group of children, some without shirts are seen playing with the discarded wheels of a tractor.

village · river

A woman's job is already a balancing act! But add water woes to the equation, and you have a head full of pots to take care of, fetching them from the stream source and all the way back to the home kitchen.

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…

village · forest

A ride inside the dirt roads of rural Goa on a gloomy autumn evening. Dirt roads damp from a slight shower, trees, fark clouds with the remnants of the monsoon.

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.

hills · livestock

Cattle herders from Sukhi Village, Uttarakhand graze their cattle in the Upper Son Gad Valley during the autumn season. This will be the last graze for these cattle up in the cold valley near the Garhwal Himalaya.

village

What an idyllic rural existence in India! Clean air, fresh monsoon water, cultivation of organic crops, and a house with garden plot right next to the most heavenly waterfalls in central India.

village

The early visitor of 2020 monsoons leaves trails of damage and loss in its path in Nadia district of West Bengal. The border areas of West Bengal faces loss of lives, destruction of property in the wake of Cyclone Amphan.

Rishikesh, Uttarakhand·railway · highway

One approaches the Sakoti Tanda railway line from the Delhi side and then climbs onto a flyover that goes across the train line.