festival

dance · sport

Crowd gather to watch an exciting boxing match of children category during the Annual Yaoshang Sports Meet at Naharol Yaipha Thourang Club ground, Okram Chuthek Wangkhei Loumanbi, Manipur.

Maharashtra·festival · river

Indian pilgrims throng streets of Ramkund during Kumbh Mela in Nashik, Maharashtra, India. Kumbh Mela is one of the hallowed festivals of India and is organized at a big scale.

sport · festival

Crowds during Jallikattu bull taming in the season of Pongal celebrations... One more use for the Holy Cow in India! According to Wikipedia: "Jallikattu or Eruthazhuvuthal or Manju Virattu is a bull taming sport played in Tamil Nadu as a pa…

festival · dance

Crowd enjoys the live performance of Mizo singer during Chapchar Kut 2015 celebration in Mizoram. Mizoram, the land of the beautiful Mizo people, is one of the seven sister states of North-east India.

West Bengal·festival · ceremony

Gangasagar mela Huge crowds of pilgrims bathing in the holy waters of the Ganga: thousands of earthen lamps floating in the darkness of the night, carrying the hopes and prayers of innumerable pilgrims: the air filled with the pleasant smel…

festival · river

Pilgrims gather to take holy dip at the Ganges during Kumbh mela. Kumbh Mela is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage that occurs four times every twelve years and rotates among four locations of India.

Uttarakhand·festival · river

Hindus filling Ganga jal or Ganges river water into plastic canisters to carry home and use for prayer.

Rajasthan·livestock · festival

Native people throngs the local market of the town Pushkar of Rajasthan during the famous Pushkar Mela. Pushkar Fair, which is one of the most colourful festival attracting large number of tourist.

Chhattisgarh·sport · village

People prepare for a tractor race during a rural sports festival known as "Indian Rural Olympics", in Kila Raipur, Ludhiana, Punjab. Imagine racing John Deere and Ford beasts in the Indian heartland...

bazaar · festival

A street magician delights the crowd with his breathing-taking tricks and sleight of hand such as lifting a man four feet from the ground, at the Dilli Haat Magic Fest.

dance · music

Folk singer of Mizoram Vanlalhlana singing at Anthurium Festival 2014. Crowd join in and dance Chhiehhlam (Mizo folk dance). The Anthurium Festival is a 3 day-long event organized every year in September by the state govt.

Chhattisgarh·sport · village

Crowd enjoying cycle race during Rural Olympics in Ludhiana, Punjab. Kila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as the Rural Olympics, is held annually in Kila Raipur (near Ludhiana), in Punjab, India.

festival · river

Pilgrims cleansing their souls in the Holy river Ganga during the Kumbh Mela, India. Kumbh mela is a tradition which followed thousands of years.

Uttar Pradesh·ceremony · festival

Maha Shivratri is a Hindu festival celebrated every year in reverence of Lord Shiva. It is also known as padmarajarathri. Shivaratri literally means the great night of Shiva or the night of Shiva.

festival · bazaar

For hundreds of years people have been using money as a medium to trade things. Essential commodities as well as precious gems and metals.

Haryana·crafts · festival

Rajasthani drummers attract visiters at Surajkund International Crafts Mela in Faridabad, Haryana, India. Surajkund Mela in Haryana.

sport · festival

Full packed stadium seen during the Kila Raipur Sports Festival were varieties of traditional sports were exhibited at the fest.

festival · temple

Slow motion footage of people throwing colours on each other during the Holi festival celebration in India. Holi celebration begins with lighting up of bonfire on the Holi eve.

Assam·festival · temple

A sea of humanity! Watch the people go by... Crowds mill around at the Mela grounds in Asom. Ambumachi mela is the second biggest gathering of Humanity in the world.

Uttar Pradesh·festival · river

Kumbh Mela is a mass Hindu pilgrimage of faith in which Hindus gather to bathe in a sacred river.

livestock · festival

Visitors in large number gather to witness Sonepur mela in Bihar. The Sonepur Cattle Fair or Malegaon Mela is held on Kartik Poornima (the full moon day) in the month of November in Sonepur, Bihar, on the confluence of river Ganges and Gand…

Chhattisgarh·sport · village

Kabaddi is a wrestling sport from India and is the state game of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh in India. It is the national game of Bangladesh.

festival · dance

Time lapse of the crowd dispersing from the main venue - Chapchar kut festival. Mizoram, the land of the beautiful Mizo people, is one of the seven sister states of North-east India.