industry

village · politics

Viewer discretion advised due to possible graphic content. A rural woman when interviewed about Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan protest. She said: "As we were out for a meeting in which the question was asked by the Police.

village · forest

As part of the 'Khonoma Green Village Project' (KGVP) supported by the Union Ministry of Tourism and Culture, eco-tourism is being promoted in Khonoma village.

fort · industry

Adlaj Vav was commissioned by Rani Roopba, the queen of Rana Veersingh, a local chief who was defeated by the Muslim ruler Mohammed Begda.

West Bengal·industry · school

School books, enrollment cards for exams, school bags and shoes - vignettes of destruction and loss at the site of the Darjeeling landslides of 2015's monsoon season.

highway · industry

A classic case of road building in the Himalaya causing landslides. Poorly planned and executed constructions frequently cause landslides and rockfalls in unstable and seismically active zones such as the Himalaya.

industry

We wear different types of clothes according to different seasons. Our clothes are made of different materials. Touch some of your clothes and feel their texture.

industry

We wear different types of clothes according to different seasons. Our clothes are made of different materials. Touch some of your clothes and feel their texture.

Uttar Pradesh·crafts · industry

Chikankari is a fine art of embroidery made with white untwisted yarn with the help of a needle on a fine cloth. It is done on viol, silk, cambric, georgette, terry cotton etc.

industry

Colorful threads being rolled at a textile workshop in Nawagaon. There are threads of black, red and white colors.

Uttar Pradesh·industry

Workers at a dyeing factory in Meerut are in action dying clothing in both colours. Take a look at this common dyeing technique which is common in many places in India.

Uttar Pradesh·industry

Clothes are dyed in multiple colours through boil dyeing at this factory in Meerut. Fabric is dyed in desired colours by putting the fabric in the steaming pot with colours preadded. This is a popular form of dying in many places in India.

industry

Cotton processing factory in India. One can see workers carrying cotton in baskets. Other workers sit around on the mountains of cotton and chit-chat with each other... Kids play around on the piles of white.

farmland · industry

A farmer and his wife collect cotton from their fields in Rajasthan, India. The woman collects cotton within a fold in her saree and then dumps it onto a collection sheet on the ground.

farmland · industry

Cotton is the most important fibre crop not only of India but of the entire world. It provides the basic raw material (cotton fibre) to cotton textile industry.

farmland · industry

With an increase of 75.16% area under cotton cultivation this season, upper Rajasthan, mainly the Sriganganagar circle, has made a record of sorts in changing the agriculture profile of the region, by shifting from traditional crops to "whi…

farmland · industry

A farmer and his wife collect cotton from their fields in Rajasthan, India. The woman collects cotton within a fold in her saree and then dumps it onto a collection sheet on the ground.

Rajasthan·farmland · industry

A farmer and his wife collect cotton from their fields in Rajasthan, India. The woman collects cotton within a fold in her saree and then dumps it onto a collection sheet on the ground.

industry

Watch the cotton stripper machine at work in the factory of Mansukhbhai. Cotton is weighed on a weighing scale before being used. Mr. Patel says: "I am Mansukhbhai Patel from Gujarat. I have made a cotton stripper innovation.

industry

We first made this machine in 1991. When there is much load, we had to keep replacing parts and the cost went up, so we changed the model. Watch the cotton stripper machine at work in the factory of Mansukhbhai. Mr.

industry

See the process of spinning cotton at a factory in India. The process is entirely automated and bales of cotton get automatically created, after being spun. Cotton thread is also created by the machinery.

Jammu and Kashmir·industry

Kashmiri farm workers separate the stamens of the Crocus sativus plant, sitting next to their hookah.

industry

Cardamom is the dried ripe fruit (capsules of cardamom plant) often referred as the "Queen of Spices" because of its very pleasant aroma and taste. Cardamom is a perennial, herbaceous, rhizomatous plant.

street food · industry

A South Indian woman sorting her Cardamom plants in the field. A low-growing, leafy tropical plant, which grows on the jungle floor in the wild. Cardamoms have smooth green leaves on long stalks, which are spicily scented when bruised.