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Ranchi, Jharkhand·river · highway

The Dassam Falls is situated at 34 km from the city of Ranchi on Ranchi-Tata road near the Taimara village. The place is also known as Dassam Garh.

festival · village

Villagers jump into river en masse, stun and kill all the fish in a centuries old festive tradition: People fish at Maund mela. Villagers come together to pillage the Aglar nadi on one day each June.

festival · village

Villagers jump into river en masse, stun and kill all the fish in a centuries old festive tradition: People fish at Maund mela. Villagers come together to pillage the Aglar nadi on one day each June.

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After tens of thousands of Crores of Indian Rupees spent on the Ganga Action Plan to revive the Ganges river delta and riverine system, this is the state of India's most important river.

snow · river

Land of snow and ice? Nope, aerial view of Yamuna - Ganga riverine system in India, full of detergent foam.

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Green Sandpiper hangs out in polluted waters of what was once a pure Aravalli stream: Delhi damnation. A Green Sandipiper frequents a polluted open drain in Delhi, what once used to be a beautiful Aravalli stream

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Spotbill Duck frequents polluted open drain in Delhi, what once used to be a beautiful Aravalli stream

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Detergent foam floats down like icebergs in Delhi's dystoptragedy of the Yamuna river, as BOD and fish become extinct Snowfall in Delhi? Nope, just good old detergent foam and water pollution in the Yamuna-Ganga riverine basin.

river · ceremony

Snowfall in Delhi? Nope, just good old detergent foam and water pollution in the Yamuna-Ganga riverine basin.

flowers · farmland

Hong Kong Orchid tree or Bauhinia blakeana blooms in winter at Wilderness Orchard New Delhi, Parakeets love the blooms and they constantly dig into and destroy the flowers, as they eat them.

river · lake

Bauhinia blakeana flowers cover the ground in a rich tapestry of reddish-pink, at the Wilderness Orchard in the New Delhi spring-time.

birds · river

What a large inter-community gathering of Cattle Egrets and Purple Moorhen along the polluted Yamuna river but on a clear clean-up day, with the promise of better waters to come, even as they all sit on islands of the pernicious and invasiv…

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Yamuna Cleanup operation begins, but without stopping the flow of sewage into river, why not done earlier? Flocks of Cattle Egrets and Purple Moorhens settle onto large pads of invsaive Water hyacinth even as a water cleaning machine moves…

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Migratory Greylag Geese witness the Yamuna clean-up and wonder why it was not done decades sooner! Water hyacinth is a pradatory and invasive water weed that covers and chokes the surface of often important water bodies which has taken ober…

Uttarakhand·highway · river

Rajaji National Park forest stream floods over even as new Dehradun National Highway construction starts.

lake · river

Gurudongmar Lake in north Sikkim - One of India's most beautiful and among world's highest lakes

lake · river

Pangong Tso in Ladakh, with stunning aquamarine waters, as seen in aerial view

Uttar Pradesh·ceremony · river

Not just women, but male devotees also perform Chhath Puja rituals along the polluted Yamuna River at Noida, praying to the sun god.

Rajasthan·river · lake

Night view of Udaipur city and palace, from roof-top restaurant Sheesh Mahal on Lake Pichola Lake Pichola Udaipur in glorious aerial view Lake Pichola Udaipur in glorious aerial view of Rajasthan's lake city, as seen aerially, from the air,…

Rajasthan·river · lake

Taj Lake Palace hotel an oasis of hospitality: Lake Pichola Udaipur in glorious aerial view Lake Pichola Udaipur in glorious aerial view of Rajasthan's lake city, as seen aerially, from the air, on this aerial view.

Haryana·river · snow

Biscope / bioscope in action at the Surajkund Crafts Mela, one of India's most successful tourism initiatives. Roller Kulfi is a mechanised version of the old Indian ice cream form, tourists stream in to Surajkund

Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh·festival · river

Wow - when did we last see such a sea of humanity - such human numbers? The Partition of India comes to mind! Tens of Millions of people walk to get to Maha Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj along the Ganga river in India The very crowded Maha Kumbh…

Jammu and Kashmir·boats · lake

Shikaras and house boats on Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir, in days of yore, circa 1990's.