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Demoiselle Cranes in massive numbers call away as they sit near a water hole in Rajasthan. They usually migrate to the northern Indian regions in winter. The cranes are preening their plumage.

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Thatched roofs, and mud walls in an Indian village. Mud houses are mostly seen in hot, arid, dry regions as there is a scarcity of other raw materials of construction. Mud houses also act as natural air conditioners.

crafts · village

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam arrives and inauguratesthe Golden Jubilee event of Handicrafts Resurgence in India at India International Centre, New Delhi. The choir sings the national anthem 'Jana Gana mana'.

river · boats

Women row wooden boats over a tributary of the Brahmaputra in their wooden boats. The women are going to the other side of the river from their village to sell vegetables and wood.

festival · village

Saras event Indian International Trade Fair in Hall number 7 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. Over 7,000 companies from India and abroad participated in the event.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · village

Gette is the highest village in Spiti and is situated at a height of 4270m. At a short distance from Kaza. There were only six families living here up to last year Spiti valley is famous for its rough and rugged highways and roads.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · village

Riding in Spiti valley is full of adventure as the roads are rough and distances between villages are long. It can be tiresome yet exciting. Gette is the highest village in Spiti and is situated at a height of 4270m.

Himachal Pradesh·village · hills

Thaua, cairns or stone pile signifies different things to different people. Some of them have religious beliefs attached to it, someplace it to show that they are back home, and for some, it is like a milestone.

temple · hills

The fast growing town of Champawat is seeing a lot of non-traditional non-pahari architecture take over it's traditional rural look. Unplanned development is rendering the green hills of Kumaon into a semi-urban sprawl.

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This video talks about the 7 dimensions of cleaning called 'Sampoorn safai'. Learn about the Indian system of rural hygiene, cleanliness.i.e. to clean oneself, one's house, one's village, etc.

Uttarakhand·hills · village

Fog engulfs Agar village in Regru valley near Almora in Uttarakhand as seen aerially. As seen in the video the Kumaon region favours terrace farming growing organic vegetables for the villages in Regru valley.

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Foreign athletes get groomed at the Shahnaz Husain beauty salon in the Commonwealth Games Village in 2010.

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Foreign athletes head to the Polyclinic at the Commonwealth Games Village. A dedicated staff looking after the athletes' health and hygiene needs.

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Pole vaulting practise underway at Commonwealth Games Village 2010. Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long flexible pole as an aid to jump over a bar.

village · river

A horde of athletes from all over the world walks the pathways within the Commonwealth Games village. The 2010 Commonwealth Games Village was the athletes' residence for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

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French writer and author of the famous book The City of Joy arrives in rural Bengal. He is greeted by the staff and children of the School for specially abled. Lapierre and his team are greeted with flowers and application of Tikka.

village · livestock

A village in India in 1998 with cattle feeding outside the house. Villagers going about their daily activities of winnowing paddy etc,.

crafts · village

An interview with Namrata Thapa, Director, Directorate of Handicraft and Handloom Institute, Sikkim. She takes the interviewer through the various projects and the training programs of the institute.

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A family of bamboo craftsmen outside their house in India. A woman is splitting the bamboo into the desired shape and thickness. Her husband is weaving aq bamboo basket.

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What an idyllic rural existence in India! Clean air, fresh monsoon water, cultivation of organic crops, and a house with garden plot right next to the most heavenly waterfalls in central India.

street food · village

A household in rural India brimming with activity as the woman prepares food with a firewood fueled heat source. Rural households in India majorly use firewood and dried cow dung for cooking and to keep themselves warm.

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A group of women sits around a machine for making rosary beads outdoors in a village in India. Blocks of wood are placed on top of a metal plate. The singular beads are drilled out through an opening on the metal plate.

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Coloured rosary beads are put into bowls which spins with the help of a mechanical spinner. Women run the needles with threads along the outer side of the bowls to which makes a number of beads onto the needles.