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Overcoming the floods

Life in flooded parts of India does not stop people getting on with it…. even if it means pumping the stuff when you are wallowing in it!

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Merry Christmas everyone

Author aurovrata Date December 25, 2013

Christmas is slowly picking up as an important celebration in India (Photo credit: Tarquin...

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Amazing news to share!

Author aurovrata Date February 19, 2013

I love this ad, it does such a good job of expressing the elation...

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Grooming time

Monkeys are a common site in many urban areas that are adjacent to wild parks. The monkey is a protected species in India, yet their natural predator have disappeared, leaving the monkey population to explode and are now considered a pest by many urban and rural communities. Urban areas offer a source of easy food for them.

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The Indian brick-man

Author aurovrata Date May 9, 2013

Amazing ingenuity of manual labourers.

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Happy Holi

Holi, predominantly north Indian festival of colours celebrating the start of spring, photos by Sanjay Kanojia (AFP / Getty Images)

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Stark stork story

Greater Adjutant storks stand by as a boy picks through a landfill (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Storks have seen their wetlands turned into a dump (Photo: Ritu Raj Konwar)

Daily, 50 trucks dump refuse from the cisty of Guwahati in Assam, NE India (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

A sad reality, as urbanisation takes its toll on the environment. Deerpol Beel in Guwahati i Assam, NE India, a traditional wetland sanctuary for Great Adjutant Storks has been converted into the city’s refuse dump yard.