village

village · bazaar

In the crowded lanes and along the main road of Fatehpur Beri village, many fruit and vegetable vendors do business. This vend run by a woman is unusual for a Gujjar village.

village · highway

A slight village girl performs a tight rope walking act as part of a road-side travelling street circus, balancing a pot on her head, in village Asola-Fatehpur Beri on the fringes of New Delhi city.

ceremony · village

Sindoor Daan at a Hindu wedding - A bride and a groom sit at the wedding altar in Fatehpur Beri village in New Delhi. The sindoor or vermillion ceremony takes place.

ceremony · dance

Dance party at Mehendi ceremony before Hindu wedding in Gujjar family of Fatehpur Beri village, Delhi

ceremony · village

Chanting and singing traditional wedding songs together, Gujar community women come together for a pre-wedding celebration at the house of Vijay and Rajbala Tanwar in Fatehpur Beri village in South Delhi, to celebrate the wedding of Vaishal…

festival · village

Ram Leela Dussehra stage play at a rural fair in India - Religious popular non-theater entertainment for the masses?

festival · village

In a circus-like atmosphere, a giant ferris wheel sits on the grounds, as crowds gather to view the victory of good forces over evil, and the symbolism of India's Dussehra festival.

village · bazaar

The village of Teetarpur is where every Dussehra organizer heads in order to order their Ravana effigies in time for the big bust-up fireworks of Dussehra day.

Alappuzha, Kerala·village · boats

Past rows of coconut trees and small village homes and huts, Alleppey village canals and small boat waterways connect with the larger Kerala back-waters.

Uttar Pradesh·architecture · highway

India's tallest tower collapse: Supertech Noida twin towers come down in controlled demolition, 28th August 2022 A view of the Supertech towers in NOIDA, shortly after they were brought down in a controlled demolition using 2700 kilograms o…

festival · village

Not a sea urchin, not the surface of the moon, but a Ladakh landscape from Lamayuru Yes, it is not a moon surface landscape but a beautiful aerial view of Lamayuru in Ladakh.

highway · village

Chhindwara to Nagpur driving journey through rural and urban landscape, across Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra highway infrastructure. Tunnel vision - view from the end of a tunnel.

festival · hills

Every fish caught is proudly displayed, even if it is still and should have been left to breed. These men are killing fish for entertainment.

village · wildlife

This is a rural attempt at re-creating a Snow Leopard to educate local kids about the importance of the high altitude fauna of the Himalaya, by the Forest department, Indian Army and villagers of Thangu village in north Sikkim.

festival · hills

Camaraderie much, but at what cost? Fishing festival or riverine destruction? Maund mela on Aglar nadi behind Mussoorie leads to ecological damage. Locals band together in the river, to collect all the fish they have stunned.

Uttarakhand·festival · hills

Fishing festival or riverine destruction? Maund mela on Aglar nadi behind Mussoorie leads to ecological damage. Locals band together in the river, to collect all the fish they have stunned.

sport · village

During the days of promoting his film Lagaan, actor Amir Khan plays cricket in a mall wearing his 'Lagaan' attire of dhoti.

school · village

village · monsoon

Tractors and motorcyclists ply the village roads of an Orissa village, as the monsoon is awaiting and black clouds loom on the horizon. Village women carry wood back for their home hearths and cooking fires, on a windy cool summer day.

lake · village

A villager casts his net and tries to catch fish from a village pond in Orissa. He wades into the middle of the pond so as to catch the deepest waters. Man throws his net and tries to catch fish from a village pond in Orissa

street food · village

During a summer storm, village women, their sarees billowing in the heavy gusting wind, carry wood for cooking and as firewood, on a rainy windy day in Orissa, India.

farmland · village

Poughing time in India and clearly the bulls are off the job, and this new machine is on! See a Massey Ferguson 241 DI Tractor in use at a rural farm in Orissa, digging through and ploughing the fields and kicking up a dust storm, in an eff…

village

What fun it must be for these village youngsters to get together in the village pond, to cool off from a hot summery day, to swim, fish, carouse with friends and just hang out in general.