monsoon

highway · monsoon

India shining or India whining? The poor people of India live along the flooded streets of Delhi, by creating makeshift shelters from tarp and plastic sheeting along open roads near flyovers.

highway · politics

A water tanker is chased down as it slows to a stop, by slum dwellers and road-side poor in north India. Women and children chase after it with plastic water containers to collect water for their home needs.

monsoon · highway

With stuck auto rickshaws trying to deal with flooded flyover underpasses and cars wading through sewage melding with rain flood waters, Delhi cannot handle heavy rains and flooding! Cars and trucks break down, poor auto wallahs have to pus…

monsoon · highway

A toddler takes a shower from the fresh water emanating from a water tanker on the streets of New Delhi, after incessant monsoon floods caused a shortage of clean water.

monsoon · highway

A kid cycles in a road that has turned into a pond in Delhi's monsoon floods of summer 2023. Even the dog can't figure out how things changed so quickly, but sort of goes with the flow and enjoys the cool waters.

monsoon · hills

Termite insects in their hive of activity as they get frantic with work as monsoon progresses across India. See a termite hill or deemak pahari get built in time lapse mode...

flowers · monsoon

Lotus flower has a work of art within it, in the form of the formative seed pod developing within Pretty even as it dies, the lotus is something else! What a delicate lotus pink, with finer shades - No wonder the Kamal is India's national…

monsoon · hills

Brilliant Himalayan cloud movements: Late monsoon afternoon time lapse of clouds at wildfilmsindia's Jabbarkhet mountains in Uttarakhand. And then we head into sunset! Late afternoon time lapse of clouds at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet

monsoon

Toyota Kirloskar India has created the Fortuner, a car of epic design features, with this rain water harvesting feature on board! It collects tens of liters of rain water run-off in each door.

flowers · monsoon

Meconopsis integrifolia from Tibet, budding at Wildfilmsindia botanical arboreta in Uttarakhand Grown with seed provided by the Meconopsis Group of the UK, this is Meconopsis integrifolia ex Zheduo Shan, with reflective rain drops accumulat…

monsoon

A male Pavo cristatis walks tall and confidently, strutting his stuff in front of the females and turfing out his terrain.

Mussoorie, Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

Hail stones and rain fall together around Mussoorie. Hail and rain in Uttarakhand: Climate change could now mean middle Himalaya gets more hail than snow

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Pilgrims wear colourful plastic rain coats and slog up the stone pathway to get to Tungnath temple on a rainy day in Uttarakhand, above Rudraprayag and below Chandrashila peak.

river · monsoon

Driving up the Tista nadi. The Teesta river in brown water monsoon spate in Sikkim: Driving up the lifeline river of Sikkim and Darjeeling, and the life giver to the forests of upper West Bengal.

flowers · hills

Meconopsis paniculata or Himalayan yellow poppy growing wild on a Himalayan slope in north Sikkim, as well as Oriental garden Lily : Two yellow stunners Meconopsis paniculata in Sikkim Himalaya, seen in end Jun 2002 with droplets of monsoon…

hills · flowers

Meconopsis paniculata in Sikkim Himalaya, seen in end Jun 2022 with droplets of monsoon rain water, in the Shingba Rhododendron Sanctuary beyond Lachung village, en route Yumthang in North Sikkim.

flowers · monsoon

Meconopsis integrifolia from Tibet, budding at Wildfilmsindia botanical arboreta in Uttarakhand Grown with seed provided by the Meconopsis Group of the UK, this is Meconopsis integrifolia ex Zheduo Shan, with reflective rain drops accumulat…

monsoon · hills

Grown with seed provided by the Meconopsis Group of the UK, this is Meconopsis integrifolia ex Zheduo Shan, with reflective rain drops accumulated on hairy leaves, after a late winter - early spring shower at the wildfilmsindia botanical co…

dance · monsoon

On location for film Masti, with Shweta Kawaatra, with Ganesh Acharya. On location for Indra Kumar's film Masti song, with Vivek Oberoi and Lara Dutta dancing in the rain.

monsoon

A Tony Fernandes' Air Asia airplane takes off after a heavy winter rain shower at Delhi airport T3, making a smooth exit off the runway and a rapid ascent thereafter.

Rajasthan·monsoon · river

The dry craggy hills around Udaipur lead up to a hill top with the fabled Sajjan Garh Palace sitting atop it, as sen aerially, in this aerial view of the fort.

Rajasthan·river · monsoon

The dry craggy hills around Udaipur lead up to a hill top with the fabled Sajjan Garh Palace sitting atop it, as sen aerially, in this aerial view of the fort.

snow · hills

Summer rain clouds race in over the Garhwal Himalaya, as seen in time lapse, around Uttarakashi, in the higher hills around Dodital.