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Cedar wood beams being prepared for wooden chakhats of doors and windows (door frames), as prepared on site, even as the mist swirls in and darkens the daylight...

industry · ceremony

Hindu Puja of machinery - Vishwakarma Puja is for workers and architects - Vishwakarma was the architect to the gods! The diesel engine of a cement mixer is cranked to life and comes alive, as workers pray to their machinery, as part of a H…

industry · river

Two sets of labourer hands do a push me pull you with a shovel being pushed and pulled to extricate river sand from a chhota hathi ghattu jeep, at a construction site in India.

industry · architecture

This footage captures a team of construction labourers carrying out manual concrete work at a building site in a mountainous region.

industry · architecture

This footage captures construction workers manually unloading long, heavy bamboo poles from a transport truck at an active building site in India.

industry · architecture

This time-lapse footage captures three construction workers building a house while working from a traditional bamboo scaffold.

aerial · industry

Aerial flight over the Asola Bhatti wildlife sanctuary, over the land-filled mining holes and filled pits of the land fills that take in Delhi's garbage. This is originally part of the xeophytic vegetation of the Aravalli mountain range.

industry

Indian people work at Yamaha Motor India Limited plant in India. The Yamaha motorcycle engines are being made in a Yamaha factory in India. The engines are being carried with a small crane.

industry

Indian workers assemble parts of Yamaha motorbikes at Escorts Yamaha factory in India. They attach the seats, headlights, tyres, engine etc. Yamaha RX100 is a 98cc 2-stroke single cylinder air-cooled motorcycle.

industry

Indian workers work at assembling line of Escorts Yamaha's RX 100 motorbikes in India. A worker checks the speed of a motorbike. Yamaha RX100 is a 98 cc 2-stroke single cylinder aircooled motorcycle.

flowers · industry

Some of the indigenous fruits of India, as grown at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in New Delhi.

flowers · industry

An alpine meadow covered in rare bloom! A June visit to north Sikkim in India yields a rich species list of primulas and Rhododendrons, including Primula strumosa (the yellow one is not sikkimensis!) and glomerata (the blue species) and the…

industry · ceremony

Tulsi or Tulasi (Ocimum tenuiflorum) or Holy basil is a sacred plant in Hindu belief. Hindus regard it as an earthly manifestation of the goddess Tulsi, a consort of the god Vishnu.

industry

Justicia adhatoda or Adhatoda vasica is a commonly found wild growing shrub of north India, and is an important ingredient in various medicinal preparations including one for coughs.

industry · flowers

Camellia sinensis is a species of evergreen shrub or small tree whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce tea. It is of the genus Camellia of flowering plants in the family Theaceae.

Rajasthan·industry · flowers

Aloe vera is a succulent plant species. Extracts from Aloe vera are widely used in the cosmetics and alternative medicine industries, being marketed as variously having rejuvenating, healing, or soothing properties.

Rajasthan·industry

Capparis decidua is commonly known as kair, kerda, karir, kirir, karril, etc. Capparis decidua (Forsk.) is belonging to family Capparidaceae, yet important medicinal plant of Indian Medicinal Plants.

industry · flowers

Nongmangkha (Phlogacanthus thyrsiformis) is a gregarious shrub, common in the Manipur valley. This plant has long orange-red tubular flowers, appearing in upright spikes at the end of branches.

industry

Kashmal is a spinous shrub, often found in small patches on the hill slopes. It is a very important medicinal plant, almost every part of this plant has some medicinal value.

industry

Is that plant a Trillium? The local Garhwalis call it Satva, a root that is used for medicinal purposes. We filmed this in June 2016, in the meadows around the Nanda Devi Sanctuary.

Himachal Pradesh·industry

Marijuana is a plant that grows in the wild in a place like Himachal. It is concidered to be a sacred plant and is mainly used to make charas or hash in these parts of the mountains.

industry · flowers

Plants have feelings, too! See this demonstration of the touch-sensitive nature of the Mimosa plant! The chui mui or chui mui plant that is touch sensitive and seen around India in a range of habitats.

industry

Chewing gum contains dry leaves of Gymnema. The Gymnema sylvestre plant is an important source of this medicinal plant. Madhunashini Gymnema sylvestre or Gurmar: Magic remedy for diabetes