There have been many architectural symphoniesbuilt by different groups of people who have ruled this country, during thereign of these different groups there have been various reforms being made inthe life and cultures of the people living in this country. Therefore here are50 Beautiful Pictures of India which will surely let you know about thediversity of cultures and their significance in this country.
1. Holi Celebration, India
What makes this shot work is the dramatic burstof blue spurting into the crowd. No matter how frenetic and energy-filled thescene is, there still needs to be a moment among the frenzy. The blue hand alsogives us one sharp point of focus in a sea of turbaned heads. Importantly, thevibrant blue contrasts so well with the yellows and the reds, making the wholescene alive with vitality.
2. Wedding Procession, India
I took this picture during a wedding processionin Varanasi, India. The band and the lights are part of the groom’s procession,which walks its way toward the bride’s house.
3. Sadhu, Mana Village
Mana village, Uttaranchal, on the India and Tibetborder
4. River
To get this picture, I got up early in the darkat about 4 a.m. before my work, and tried to get this shot without flash,external artificial light, using the long exposure.
5. Kusti Wrestlers
Kusti is a form of traditional Indian wrestling.This image was shot at Mamasaheb Mohol stadium in Sangvi, Pune.
6. Desert Crossing, Rajasthan, India
This simple image is all about symmetry and, Iwould bet, persistence. I doubt the photographer just happened to be standingin the desert when these five women walked by. To get this kind of photograph,you need to spend time with people and follow along with them. In this shot,each woman is stepping forward, and this creates a lovely harmony of movement.Also, each sari is billowing out in the same direction, and the women areevenly separated, which adds to the sense of harmony. To achieve this kind ofsymmetry, you may have to walk or run alongside the women for as long as ittakes to get this shot.
7. Karni Mata Temple, India
A woman in Deshnoke, Rajasthan, watches as ratsdrink milk from a pan at the Karni Mata Temple, a monument to the rat goddess.More than 20,000 rats live in the temple, including a handful of white ones,which are thought to be direct descendents of Karni Mata and thereforeconsidered especially sacred.
8. Bridal Procession
Women in bright saris crowd together as they walkin a bridal procession in Mandawa, Rajasthan. Rajasthan is the largest state inIndia—a land of extremes—encompassing steamy forests, dry plains, and the snowyHimalaya.
9. Newborn Weigh-In, India
Founded in 1970, the Comprehensive Rural HealthProject (also known as Jamkhed, for the city where it is based) deliverspreventive care to poor people who otherwise would get none. The project hasserved 300 villages and 500,000 people in Maharashtra state, including anewborn baby, fully swaddled and suspended for his weigh-in by village healthworker Leelabai Amte.
10. Tiger
Hunted to death in much of India, tigers survivein Kaziranga National Park.
11. Camel Trader, India
Rising before the sun, a lone camel trader sitsnear his fire to keep warm while he waits for the day of trading to begin atthe Nagaur Cattle Fair in Nagaur, India.
12. Diwali Festival, India
Two women in Jaipur hold candles to celebrateDiwali, the Festival of Lights. Observed over five days throughout India, itmarks, among other things, the start of the new business year and the victoryof light over dark.
By photographing the shadow of the child runningwith balloons rather than the actual child, the photographer captured an imagethat immediately stops us in our tracks. Though the shadow is flat, it has somuch movement and life. What is most surprising is how vibrant the colors are,and this is because the background is white/off-white.
The fall of light, Agra
Are these the monkeys’ mothers? Not always.Langurs often share babysitting duties within a close-knit group of females andtheir offspring. The young are born with thin dark fur that turns thick andgrayish gold after a few months.
16. Bathing Tigress, India.
With feline grace abandoned, Bachhi takes herpicture by breaking an infrared beam at an unmanned remote-camera inBandhavgarh. Sweltering in 120-degree heat, she seeks relief in a pool, despiteits fetid brew of rotting leaves and monkey urine.
17. Delhi, India
With one foot deeply grounded in time-reveredtraditions and the other dipping more than just a few toes in the dotcomdomain, Delhi embraces diversity with verve and gritty gumption. Modern Delhihas only been India’s capital since 1931, but thanks to its location—astrategic gateway city—it has long played a critical role in shaping the subcontinent’shistory. Today, Delhi is one of India’s most multifaceted cities, with thedowntown swish restaurants and chichi boutiques serving as a stark contrast tothe old city’s medieval-flavored bazaars and historic masterpieces like the RedFort and Jama Masjid.
The hands of a woman in Jaipur are covered withmehndi patterns painted with henna. Trendy in recent years, the laceworkdecorations are part of a 5,000-year-old tradition of creating designs to wardoff evil or declare one’s happiness.
19. Elephant Festival, India
The azure waters of Chandra Tal—Lake of theMoon—in Himachal Pradesh, India, reflect the vivid hues of a bright Himalayanday.
21. Girl in Pink, India
A young girl, a member of a groundskeeping crewat Daulatabad Fort near Aurangabad in central India, and a small bush withbright red flowers, add a splash of color to the stark brown and gray stone ofthis massive fortress.
Hindus gather by the millions along the shores ofthe Ganges River in the city of Haridwar, in Uttarakhand, north-central India.They consider Haridwar one of Hinduism’s seven holiest sites and flock to theriver to ritualistically wash away their sins.
23. Mumbai, India
Home to the razzle-dazzle world ofBollywood—India’s answer to Hollywood—rambunctious Mumbai (Bombay) is anutterly mind-bending assault on all the senses. A veritable melting pot ofreligions, customs, and culinary traditions, this is India’s economicpowerhouse and its most cosmopolitan metropolis. Said to have more millionairesper square mile than Manhattan, Mumbai also has the dubious distinction ofhousing Asia’s largest slum. Indeed, the “City of Dreams,” as it’saffectionately dubbed, is a city of sharp contrasts: business tycoons drivepast scantily clad street urchins; swanky bars overlook rickety chai stalls,and women wrapped in chiffon saris shop alongside college girls flaunting thelatest Western designer wear. Yes, if there’s a city that stirs the soul and firesthe imagination like no other, it’s Mumbai.
24. Pushkar Lake, Rajasthan
India’s monsoon rains, seen here lashing palmtrees in Trivandrum, Kerala, bring needed water and welcome relief from thelong, hot dry season. Unfortunately they may also bring flooding anddevastating outbreaks of disease.
26. Schoolchildren
Schoolchildren take a mathematics test outsidethe classroom at a school dedicated to Guru Ravidas, a north Indian humanrights advocate who in the 15th century campaigned against caste discriminationin India.
Fishing is an important source of income inKerala. People in the southwestern state also have the highest literacy rate inIndia and enjoy the best health.
28. Train, Tamil Nadu
Final journey in meter-gauge railway. The view inKerala, Tamil Nadu, border in South India.
29. Basket Weaver
The woman from Purulia is weaving baskets inorder to earn bread for her family. She has to weave as well as to sell thebasket in market. Her courageous endeavor is praiseworthy.
31. Pottery Maker
Pottery making is a means of livelihood in someof the rural areas of India. It is not only interesting to watch but alsorewarding to get your hands dirty. This picture is that of a girl with mehndion her hands who didn’t mind getting her hands muddy in the excitement ofcreating the pottery.
Tourists flock to Agra to see the world-famousTaj Mahal, only to realize that the area is home to many other astonishingbuildings, among them the 16th-century Red Fort, which once surrounded a Mogulimperial city.
33. Ladakh
This road looks like a snake on a snow-carpetedmountain at the height of about 16,000 feet in Ladakh, India. At this time thetemperature is about -26 degrees Celsius.
34. Winding Road,Jaipur
The long walk up this road in Jaipur wasdefinitely worth it for the view.
35. Goat, NorthIndia
There is cold weather in North India in thewinter and in the beginning of the spring. That’s why people put old clothes(which they are not using anymore) on goats.
36. Elephant DustBath
Elephant dust bath. Ithumba in Tsavo EastNational Park is the next phase of the elephant’s long road to rehabilitationat the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. The trust rescues and rehabilitatesorphaned elephants in Kenya. Once the elephants are old enough, they aretransported from a nursery in Nairobi to a remote area in the bush. Here it cantake up to 10 years before they are fully ready to leave the keepers and join awild or ex orphan herd.
37. Holy Men,Haridwar
Babas want to get closer to God, so each day atthe hottest hour of the day, noontime, they sit around flames of dung and smoketo torture their bodies in sacrifice. Haridwar, India.
38. Ropewalker, Jaisalmer
Girl walking on a rope during the annual desertfestival at Jaisalmer, India
Watching a mahout lovingly bathe his elephant, Itried capturing the moment from the riverside but wasn’t satisfied with what Isaw through the viewfinder. There was something lacking that made the image notdo justice to the scene. I then climbed a tree with a branch extending out overthe water and got my shot, which may have been my last as I almost fell offafter taking it. I’m sure the beautiful elephant would not have been very happyabout me falling out of a tree straight onto her stomach!
40. Washerwoman,Varanasi
Washerwoman along the ghats in Varanasi (alsoknown as Benaras) in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. They wash the clothesin the Ganges and let them dry in the adjoining ghats.
41. Camel
Camel sitting in the sand in India
42. Boatsman on the Yamuna River, India
Sunrise behind the Taj Mahal, in Agra, India, oneJanuary morning. As the fog lifted, a boatsman appeared out of the mist. Heguided his craft silently across the calm waters of the Yamuna River. The fogstill clung to the banks of the river, blending the waters into the mist andinto the sky, in a seamless, cottony gray. No one else was around. The wholeworld felt smaller.
43. 1946 India andBurma Map
Published in April 1946—just a year before Indiaand Pakistan gained their independence—this map of India and Burma details thenumerous provinces of the region. Half of a two-map set, it accompanied the“Political Subdivisions of India” map and three articles on India.
44. Playful boy
Only 200 or so Asian lions exist in the wild. Aformer royal reserve, India’s Gir Forest, is the last home of this lionsubspecies.
47. MarigoldVendor, Kolkata
This street flower vendor in a wholesale flowermarket in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, kept on loading marigold garlands over hisshoulders until he became almost three times his original size, and still keptasking for more.
48. Sungma TeaEstate, Darjeeling
Tea plucking at the lush green gardens at thefoothills of the Himalaya around Darjeeling is still an activity dominated bywomen. They do it perfectly with a smile. Captured at Sungma Tea Estate,Darjeeling, India.
49. Bara Imambara,Lucknow
50. SunderbansDelta
In a remote village in the Sunderbans delta inWest Bengal, India, fresh water is much scarcer during the summertime. Womenhave to go a half kilometer away to fetch drinking water from a tube well.
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