village

wildlife · railway

The fall of a giant... The saddest day has come. Villagers sit glum and morose as if they were mourning the death of one of their own.

forest · wildlife

Elephant Training Center or 'Elephant Kraal' is an elephant training center in Kodanad is adjacent to a mini zoo, run by the Forest Department of the Government of Kerala.

festival · village

Women in sarees, children in tow, husbands duly attentive, walk out en masse, from their village in Assam, to attend an Elephant festival and fair on the village grounds.

wildlife · railway

The fall of a giant... This elephant was killed by Elephant poachers, for its tusk. Now an eco-system has spawned on the dead giant's body - millions of maggots crawl around and come to life feeding on the putrid flesh.

wildlife · village

Destruction caused by wild elephants in Assam! Life and property are often threatened by the close proximity of human habitations to wild elephant habitat in Assam, India.

wildlife · village

An elephant comes out of the wild and in close vicinity of a village in Bankura district of West Bengal. Bankura is a district that falls under the Burdwan division of West Bengal.

village · wildlife

A three-day-old female elephant calf, which got separated from its mother, was rescued by villagers near Rayakottai in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu. The calf was spotted in a village outside Odedurgam forest.

Karnataka·wildlife · village

Water is an essential resource. Why? Because all living beings need it in order to survive. Who has never experienced that sudden thirst during a hot day? This elephant definitely knows what we are talking about as it actually invaded a vil…

village · wildlife

An elephant in musth is not a safe proposition as a neighbour. He comes in from the forest, walks around the village, helping himself to banana trees, pots of water (spraying himself as he goes along) and generally pokes his nose into every…

wildlife · village

Wild Elephant enters an Indian village stuck in the backyard of a house. The residents of the village try to scare it away which ends up in making the elephant angry.

village

Better and extended facilities for low-cost rural medical care are required across India, for the medical betterment of those who do not have access to government or high-end private health-care facilities.

monsoon · village

Devram Vishwakarma who came from Gurgaon speaks about the flood relief camp in Uttarakhand. He says "In my village all the roads are damaged, the risk of flood is on the rise, trees are falling down. We have suffered a huge loss.

Uttarakhand·village

A physician attends to patients and provides them with regular check-ups while a pharmacist distributes and provides information to the patients about medicines and their use, at a hospital in Haridwar district, Uttarakhand.

village

A rural doctor in India writes up a prescription for a child, after checking his chest with a stethoscope. He discusses the child's problems with his mother. The doctor checks a woman's blood pressure, while other families wait outside.

village

A trio of Indian villagers on the outskirts of New Delhi city smoke a joint hookah or hubble bubble in Dera village. They could either be from the Gujar or jaat community.

hills · aerial

Your helicopter makes its way up the valley from Pinjore, and into the middle Himalaya, as it winds its way into the forests and upper village homes of a hill-top, to close in on the village and cultivation, swoop low over it, and give you…

ceremony · politics

Mass Child Marriage being performed in the town of Alwar of Rajasthan, India. Child marriages are illegal in India, but are still performed in some places, due to local religious and cultural beliefs which support and justify the cultural p…

politics · ceremony

Mass Child Marriage being performed in the town of Alwar of Rajasthan, India. Child marriages are illegal in India, but are still performed in some places, due to local religious and cultural beliefs which support and justify the cultural p…

ceremony · politics

Mass Child Marriage being performed in the town of Alwar of Rajasthan, India. Child marriages are illegal in India, but are still performed in some places, due to local religious and cultural beliefs which support and justify the cultural p…

ceremony · politics

An age-old rural tradition of parts of India, such as Rajasthan, that just doesn't seem to die out, despite a national ban on child marriage! The groom and bridge are going around the fire together.

ceremony · politics

Mass Child Marriage being performed in the town of Alwar of Rajasthan, India. Child marriages are illegal in India, but are still performed in some places, due to local religious and cultural beliefs which support and justify the cultural p…

politics · ceremony

Mass Child Marriage being performed in the town of Alwar of Rajasthan, India. Child marriages are illegal in India, but are still performed in some places, due to local religious and cultural beliefs which support and justify the cultural p…

ceremony · village

Brides wear identical looking clothing, as supplied by the organizing committee of the mass child marriage in Tonk, Rajasthan, India, during Akshaya tritiya, May 2010.