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The rains have ditched Delhi this June-July monsoon season, but some parts like Old Delhi have received their share of a drenching in a strange bit of weather pattern arbitrariness!

highway · monsoon

Connaught Circus / Place or just CP market and traffic after a spell of rain in Delhi. See some recent and many older icons including Farzi Cafe, QBA, Puma, Levi's, Berco's, Gopal Das Bhawan Building, Statesman House building, Mehta Jewels,…

highway · monsoon

Cars rush over the flooded roads at traffic rush hour in New Delhi. Brown water wells up from below the flyover.

bus · monsoon

Barapullah flyover with its prominently white arched over-bridge and the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium as seen from close to INA Market and the Kotla bus stand. Delhi now has massive road infrastructure and stadia that remains under-utilized.

monsoon · highway

A rainy scene unfolds at Minto Road, Delhi, as monsoon showers wash over the city. Vehicles move steadily through the wet roads, their reflections shimmering on the rain-soaked surface, while bikers in colorful raincoats navigate the traffi…

monsoon

A block of stone or cement, a make-shift chair, a shelf with barber's supplied and a simple mirror, and voila - a new hair-cutting salon is born! And that too, over an open sewer/drain in Dehra dun, Uttarakhand, India.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

With scree in the background, and a tiny little moraine, a brave little Primula stuartii shows off its blooms! This flower was seen near Darwa Top, on the Dodital Trek and en route to Kharsali down the Hanuman Chatti-Yamunotri route, in the…

flowers · hills

A melange of monsoon time wild flowers from the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in the Himalaya (in order) - Begonia dioica and picta, Roscoea purpurea is a wild ground orchid of sorts, wild ginger, green seed pods of Arisaema wall…

flowers · hills

Aesculus indica, also known locally as payyan and in more common parlance as Horse Chestnut, has an unusual combination of a multitude of pink flowers, along with a few yellow flowers.

Uttarakhand·monsoon

The big question - is this Commelina coelestis? And if so, is it an indigenous species? Or is it an import from Mexico that has gone wild in the western Himalaya? It grows profusely on monsoon rain-drenched slopes around Landour in the Augu…

hills · monsoon

This Impatiens species of wild Himalayan yellow Balsam grows in great numbers covering the slopes of the western Himalaya during the months of monsoon profusion.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

These delightful white and pink wild Begonias grow wild on our Himalayan slopes at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the western Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

Help us identify this species of jungli pahari ginger. A wild Himalayan Ginger plant flowers in the prolific monsoon months at the wildfilmsindia Pari Tibba Estate in Motidhar, Mussoorie. Frogs call from our trout ponds!

river · village

Two more lions were found dead in Bhavnagar and Amreli district on taking the death toll of the wild cats due to flash floods to eight.

Assam·monsoon · politics

The state of Assam needs our help along with prayers and empathy for floods in Kaziranga National Park, July 2109.

Assam·monsoon · politics

The state of Assam needs our help along with prayers and empathy for floods in Kaziranga National Park, July 2109.

Madhya Pradesh·forest · monsoon

A place full of waterfalls with dizzying heights and a calm forest full of life, the Panna National Park can both, thrill you and calm you.

wildlife · monsoon

Spots galore on this Chital or Spotted Deer that is chewing its cud and twisting its jaw sideways as it does so, in a sort of semi circular motion.

monsoon · river

A Bay-backed Shrike sits on a branch and looks out for insect prey in the profusion of the monsoons, while a Langur (or that an allied southern sub-species, folks?) brushes off the rain from its fur by shaking it off.

monsoon

Ever noticed a big swarm of millipedes in gardens? These are arthropods with multiple jointed legs. The legs may vary from one individual to the other, Some might have 40 pairs of legs while the others might have more than hundreds.

highway · wildlife

The National Highway runs inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam which makes animal crossings through the national highway a common thing while driving past Kaziranga.

monsoon · hills

Coffee production in India is dominated in the hill tracts of South Indian states, with the state of Karnataka accounting 53% followed by Kerala 28% and Tamil Nadu 11% of production of 8,200 tonnes.

river · monsoon

Compilation of Karnataka's waterfalls. This video contains the highest waterfall of India 'the Jog falls', Unchalli or Lushington falls, Magod falls, Mallalli falls, Kunchikal falls etc.