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highway · ceremony

A transvestite is seen soliciting money from passing vehicles at the traffic point in Naoroji Nagar, South Delhi.

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This is a common sight at big traffic intersections in New Delhi. Homeless families, transvestite individuals are seen begging for money and food and soliciting from motorists standing at the intersection.

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We call Indian transvestites as Kinnar and they prefer that too. The older and more derogatory term for them was hijras. This kinnar emerges from the Mayapuri Metro Station.

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A couple of transgenders ask for alms at a traffic signal and get fairly 'touchy' with the people on their two-wheelers. Transgender violating people's personal space while begging for alms at a traffic crossing

highway · ceremony

Poking herself into open doors of auto rickshaws, this kinner propositions for business and alms from passengers at traffic lights near Bhikaji Cama Place in South Delhi.

highway · crafts

A gaggle of cheap customer jewellery sellers entertain their woman clients in Sarojini Nagar market, in front of CottonKurti.in, and along come a pair of kinner or Indian trans-gender women, introducing us to their SN market! Poking herself…

highway · ceremony

In a bright red jersey, this Indian trans woman (derogatively called a hijra in India) goes up to car and auto drivers and passengers, asking for money, just like the legion of beggar children around her.

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Tata trucks drive into a coal mine in Bihar. A JCB machine loads the truck with the coal at the coal mine. A hydraulic container of the truck unloads the coal at a coal mine. Trucks carrying coal drive in the coal mine.

flowers · highway

On a fine sunny day in Delhi, near Safdurjung Enclave and the Ring Road, the usual traffic, what caught the attention was the lone mango tree blooming, the red stem and yellow tiny flowers look so pretty in close-up.

highway · industry

A Gular tree in full fruit in June 2021, at our Wilderness Orchard in Delhi. A Ficus in fruit makes for a fruit feast for Hornbills, squirrels and Barbets, among other birds! The highly nutritious fig fruit clambering on the trunks on the G…

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Fruit and vegetables are often purchased on road-sides and on streets and paths in India. This roadside fruit shop sells fat plump juicy Ramgarh plums, Madhya Pradesh guava amrud and apples from Himachal Pradesh, including Shareefa or Custa…

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We have heard of the road-side amrud wallah and kela seller and mango retailer, but who has heard of Kiwi fruit being sold on an Indian roadside? Good old Indian enterprise, innovation and adaptation at work!

Tamil Nadu·highway · architecture

Higginbotham booksellers and stationary at Mount road in Chennai. Open since 1844, this grand white building is reckoned to be India's oldest bookshop.

crafts · bazaar

Busy streets of Gandhi road market in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. It is probably the best place to buy Kanjeevaram sarees as you see there are several shops which specifically deals in Kanjeevaram silk.

highway · bazaar

A quick look and it may be hard to figure out what exactly is this lump being sold on the highway. Vendors of the highway in Maharashtra are seen selling honeycomb filled with honey while some honeycombs are filled with pupae and larva.

Haryana·highway · flowers

Gurgaon is the sixth largest city in the Indian state of Haryana. Gurgaon is the industrial and financial center of Haryana. It is located 30 km south of national capital New Delhi.

Telangana·highway

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport road, Hyderabad. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport , also known as Hyderabad International Airport, or simply RGIA, is an international airport serving the metropolis of Hyderabad located at Shamshabad, a…

hills · highway

Tonga ride on the rods of Rajgir in Bihar. All the tourist sites are well marked and easily accessible through Tanga. Rajgir is a city and a notified area in Nalanda district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Jammu and Kashmir·monsoon · highway

Truck passing through flooded road in the lower hills of Jammu and Kashmir state, captured in slow motion. Written on the truck bumper is: "No Drugs No War Only Pyar".

politics · monsoon

Traffic scene with cars, auto rickshaws, trucks, bikes, city buses, on the streets of Delhi during a rainy day. One of the major problem that the capital city faces during the time of monsoon is heavy traffic jam.

highway · monsoon

Traffic scene with cars, auto rickshaws, trucks, bikes, city buses, on the streets of Delhi during a rainy day. Also, pedestrians are seen walking on the side of the road.

monsoon · highway

A vehicle get stuck in the middle of the road as monsoon rains floods the Delhi roads. Most parts of North India, bereft of rains, today reeled under humid conditions and Srinagar witnessed hottest day in seven years, even as the national c…

coastline · lake

A land mover truck sails away on a wooden flat boat in Kerala in the rains. Monsoons usually hit the eastern coast of India on the beaches of Kerala first.