industry

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These tiny bees are actually a dwarf species that is often seen in South Asia, and they make tiny hives hidden away in thick shrubbery and rarely seen.

highway · industry

A JCB and construction trucks work on a narrow section of state highway en route Spiti, clear landslides and rock falls in order to allow traffic to continue along the way to Kaza in Himachal Pradesh.

coastline · industry

What a neat and clean sun-dried work environment! No stinky fish market this... Women workers sort and shovel dry fish at Gopalpur open-air yard by the sea in Odisha / Orissa.

coastline · industry

Puri Beach is thronged by tourist crowds in Odisha, on a warm summer day along the Bay of Bengal Crowded Puri beach in Odisha is a sight from the sky: thousands mill around on clean Orissa coastal beach, along the Bay of Bengal.

Odisha·river · industry

A Purple Moorhen digs out water plant roots in the grasslands around Chilika Lake in Odisha, while a Bronze-winged Jacana does its lily leaf walking routine nearby. Egrets sit around in a large group, meanwhile.

coastline · industry

Crowded Puri beach in Odisha is a sight from the sky: thousands mill around on clean Orissa coastal beach, along the Bay of Bengal. Boats and water scooters entertain tourists.

river · industry

An old brick structure stands in front of the Odisha state Maritime Museum in Cuttack, with large iron cannons at the front, in Orissa.

river · highway

Large dumpers pick and drop sand from the riverbed of the Mahanadi and onto trucks standing nearby. Is this government licensed sand mining or something more off the radar? Truck loads of river sand are shipped off from the river bed.

coastline · industry

Crowded Puri beach in Odisha is a sight from the sky: thousands mill around on clean Orissa coastal beach, along the Bay of Bengal. Boats and water scooters entertain tourists.

coastline · industry

Sunset on Puri beach, with people milling along it, along Odisha's Bea of Bengal coastline Crowded Puri beach in Odisha is a sight from the sky: thousands mill around on clean Orissa coastal beach, along the Bay of Bengal.

Odisha·coastline · industry

Tourists mill around at Puri Beach in Orissa, revelling in the cold waters of the Bay of Bengal

industry

In the 1860's Henri Nestle, a pharmacist developed a food for babies who were unable to breast-feed. His new formula saved the child's life and soon was being sold in much of Europe. Swiss Nestle. Nestle Factory in Vevey.

river · industry

Local Manipuris collect sand from a river, one bucketful at a time, for use in construction work, from a local stream.

birds · hills

Himalayan Snake Plant or Arisaema among Maroon Oriole and Thrush bird calls at Motidhar estate of wildfilmsindia, in the western Himalaya. Arisaema is a large and diverse genus of the flowering plant family Araceae.

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hills · flowers

This attractive little Viola biflora flower is the root source for the banafsha ayurvedic medicine, and it is a common Himalayan flowering plant from the middle hills, growing on moist and shaded hillsides, mostly on the north faces.

hills · industry

Perfectly good Aravalli forest lands and agricultural fields have been turned to Martain barren-ness and beyond, as part of a planned loot of the stone lying underground in Rajasthan! The entire vast landscape has been scoured out and gouge…

railway · highway

Godhra market slow motion drive-through : A lower middle class town with poor infrastructure, and largely low-rise homes and two and three wheelers.

railway · industry

Godhra Junction is a major train station in Gujarat - also the location of an unfortunate semi-historical incident.

industry

Open coal mining takes place in central India, mining coal from the Deccan Plateau. See how the koyla mines have stripped the surface of the land of all vegetation and all plant cover has been destroyed.

railway · highway

Godhra town drive-through from one of Gujarat's poorest localities. Two and three-wheelers dominate the roads here in this predominantly Muslim community. See the modest homes and wide open streets with little traffic.

Gujarat·railway · industry

Women in pink, red and yellow attire work on the tracks at Baroda railway station. Trains have been blocked off from the section even as cargo trains with large metal containers chug on to the next set of tracks.

Gujarat·railway · industry

A drive-by near Baroda train station reveals new age construction and efficient railway infrastructure for travellers in Gujarat's second largest city.