“monsoon”

highway

During monsoons in 2021, a part of the arterial road, Aurobindo Marg caved in due to a broken pipe below. Maintenance work being carried out to make the road fit for traffic at this busy intersection.

river · aerial

An aerial of Varanasi city can be seen along the Ganga river. It looks like an ocean in monsoon in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. Thousands of buildings, trees can bee seen from above. The level of water is high and muddy.

Madhya Pradesh·forest · highway

Panna, a district lying on the north-east region in the state of Madhya Pradesh, sits on active diamond mines and is surrounded by rolling meadows with evergreen trees, colourful rocks, hills and breathtaking waterfalls.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Grown naturally during monsoon in Mussoorie, a miniature garden with moss on rocks filled with Daisies (Bellis perennis) in white and pink.

flowers · industry

Workers with sack on their back, picks leaves in a lush tea garden in Assam. The state of Assam is the world's largest tea-growing region, lying on either side of the Brahmaputra River, and bordering Bangladesh and Burma (Myanmar).

flowers · industry

Workers with baskets on their back, pluck tea leaves in a lush tea garden in Assam. The state of Assam is the world's largest tea-growing region, lying on either side of the Brahmaputra River, and bordering Bangladesh and Burma (Myanmar).

river · monsoon

Tea worker sorting out seeds at a tea nursery in India. The state of Assam is the world's largest tea-growing region, lying on either side of the Brahmaputra River, and bordering Bangladesh and Burma (Myanmar).

Maharashtra·festival · bazaar

Hindu sadhus throng Sadhugram in Tapovan, the temporary abode of several sadhus, has turned saffron.

farmland · bazaar

What a bumper tomato crop this year, in Uttarakhand's Nainbagh-Ghorakhuri fruit and vegetable belt, close to the Yamuna river, and well irrigated by the monsoons and forest springs that get channeled down to the village fields.

wildlife

A Common Jay (Graphium doson) is caught up close perching on a dry tree stump. They belong to the swallowtail butterflies and are always on the move, active throughout the day. Close up of the butterfly with detailed markings.

forest · wildlife

The town of Panna, lying adjacent to the Panna National park. But it's 25km from the entry gate of the park.

Madhya Pradesh·river · forest

The Pandav fall is at its best during monsoons when the Ken river is in full spate. The famous Pandav fall, named after the Hindu mythological characters, 'The Pandavas', who took an exile here at this fall.

Uttarakhand·river · architecture

The Assi Ganga bridge you see here got washed away in recent floods. The river's course has also changed as a result of downstream dams and recent monsoon floods.

Kanha, Madhya Pradesh·wildlife · forest

When tiger populations dwindle in one reserve, a chosen male or female is tranquilised at the Kanha Tiger Reserve in Mandla, after being suitably identified for the purpose, from another reserve, and is then translocated to a new reserve, f…

Maharashtra

Mumbai designer Azeem Khan names his post-southwest monsoon or pre-tropical winter collection as "Passion", based rather on the theme of weddings than on a geographically inconsistent season.

monsoon

Due to incessant rains, Jodhpur had to deal with flood fury in 2018. The conditions were so bad that all the vehicles were stuck and bikes were floating and in that flow, it took along with other bikes or people trying to hold onto their bi…

monsoon · farmland

Often mistaken for blackberry, deep purple Jamuns or Jambolan hangs in clusters as the monsoon arrives. The fruits on the trees are almost ripe and ready to be eaten.

farmland

Pear trees laden with fruit at our Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi. It's monsoon time and the fruit is almost ready to pluck off the trees, before the parakeets and squirrels get them all! Perfect pairs to make upside down pear cake or stew…

Nepal·river

Also known as Patale Chhango, this waterfall marks the point where the Pardi Khola stream vanishes underground. When the stream is at full bore after monsoon rains, the sound of the water plunging over the falls is deafening.

See how its very pointed, targeted and sensitive ear lobes try to pin-point sounds from within the grass.

wildlife · crafts

Salim Ali, the famous Indian ornithologist, famously described the breeding biology of the Common Baya or Weaver Bird (Ploceus philippinus.).

Madhya Pradesh·river · forest

Time Lapse of Raneh Falls. Clouds racing over Raneh Falls near Khajuraho in the Ken gharial and crocodile sanctuary, near Panna National Park, Madhya Pradesh.

forest · monsoon

Just how old are these rock-cut caves in central India? Near the village of Kalyan in Maharashtra's Thane district are the Lonad Caves which is unique in the fact that it is built under a dome of a large rock.

Uttarakhand

End of monsoon mists roll in to Jabbarkhet in Landour, and soon nightfall is upon us, with the sky over the plains of north India turning to a deep orange and then shades of red, in a phenomenon that we call the winterline.