village

fort · hills

Aerial view of Tehla Fort around Sariska National Park. Tehla is a small village near Alwar, Rajasthan. It is tucked between the foothills of the Aravalli mountain ranges.

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A wind turbine in a Rajasthani village - renewable or non-conventional energy in use in rural India. The villagers receive and unload from a truck a new batch of saplings for monsoon season plantation work.

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A glimpse of Kalaiyarkoil village in Tamil Nadu in the 1990's. Local city buses, trains, locals repairing the road can be seen.

West Bengal·village · livestock

The tea sustained by by-dynamic compost made by the villagers who own more than 700 cows. Biogas units provided by the management ensures a source of non-polluting energy, renewable energy as fuel on tap.

river · village

I have been a photographer for the better part of 30-years. Many people would call me gourd or at least a successful photographer.

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Stills of rural Indian in India as curated at an exhibition. The everyday activities of the common people are captured in these pictures. Women in rural India frozen in time at their different workplaces.

West Bengal·village

Taking a road trip from Kurseong to Rohini entry gate in Darjeeling. Many of you may not be familiar with Kurseong and think this might be another small roadside village on the way to Darjeeling.

West Bengal·river · lake

Kala Pokhri (3186 m) is a small Himalayan village inside the Singalila National Park in the Darjeeling subdivision, Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India.

school · village

TOP “GOING TO SCHOOL STORIES OF INDIA” 8. Going to school in Assam: Young Assamese boys on their way to school in a village in Assam.

West Bengal·ceremony · music

Early morning religious prayer rally by Nepalese on the streets of Darjeeling, West Bengal. ‘Prabhat Pheri’, which literally means ‘early morning rounds’, is a tradition or a ritual lost in the façade of modernization.

village · politics

People living in hilly areas of rural India have to walk many miles to get water to drink or for the household but in Champawat of Uttarakhand where people easily get water supply.

monsoon · village

In an unfortunate incident, a mud house collapses due to constant rain and family members are trapped under the debris in Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh. Other villagers are seen taking shelter at a bus stop and others walking towards it.

monsoon · village

Villagers in a flooded area are seen crossing the flooded areas on bullock carts and buffalo drawn carts. The carts loaded with cattle feed are driven by women across the flooded area and past the shacks submerged in water.

monsoon · highway

The usual road looks like a raging river for these villagers in Telangana after days of incessant rain during the monsoon. Volunteers with ropes at both ends of the flooded street for others to cross holding onto the rope.

monsoon · village

After an afternoon of heavy shower at Singhauli Village in Uttar Pradesh. The lanes in between houses have flooded and the rainwater seeping into the house. A woman is seen draining out water with a plastic bucket.

village · monsoon

Phuloni Village in Assam gets submerged in water as water from nearby rivers and rivulets flows into the village. 1500 houses are submerged and there are no signs of the water receding.

village · politics

Life has come to standstill in Bihar's Hayaghat block in Darbhanga due to non-stop rain and floods. Almost every house is submerged.

monsoon · village

Another flood in an indian village, Jamshedpur. Although India is used to somehow frequent floods, things don't get easier. Overflowing rivers trigger flood scare every year.

monsoon · village

Little village of Agastyamuni devastated by the Uttarakhand floods of 2013. In June 2013, a multi-day cloudburst centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand caused devastating floods and landslides in the country's worst natural disas…

monsoon · village

At least four people have died in Assam over the last 24 hours, as the state still grapples with a flood that has barely shown signs of retreat over the past few days.

village · monsoon

Flood affected areas of Gujarat and parts of Rajasthan have witnessed the troops of Southern Command and South Western Command involved in rescue operations. Gujarat police has also been given the task of relief and evacuation.

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People of Rajasthan showing their love to wild animals by feeding and living with them peacefully, Bishnoi Village of Rajasthan are the best example of love to wild animals and nature.

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A two-headed calf has stunned locals in an Indian village after it defied the odds to survive for over a month. The calf, yet to be named, was born on August 10 in Navalur village in Thanjavur in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.