What auto is that! Unforgettable moments New Indian Express lensmen captured in 2021

A year that was again ravaged by Covid, but one that had its golden moments for India too. We look at the best pictures of the year captured by indefatigible and inspiring photographers.

BKU spokesperson Rakesh Tikait prepares to leave after farmers ended their year-long agitation against the contentious farm reform laws, in New Delhi. (Photo | Parveen Negi, EPS) 

Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra being welcomed on his arrival at IGI Airport, after the end of the Tokyo Summer Olympics 2020, in New Delhi. (Photo | Shekhar Yadav, EPS)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tribute to the mortal remains of Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, wife Madhulika Rawat were killed in an IAF-Mi-17V5 helicopter crash in Coonoor, during a wreath layin ceremony at Palam Airport in New Delhi. (Photo | Shekhar Yadav, EPS)

Cremation of deceased patients who succumbed due to covid-19 during the second wave at Kozhikode Corporation crematorium. (Photo | T P Sooraj, EPS)

A Greater Chennai Corporation worker drives an auto-rickshaw decorated with mock syringes to boost awareness on the importance of Covid-19 vaccination. (Photo | Ashwin Prasath, EPS)

At least 72 people have died and 200 people are missing after a glacier broke off in Joshimath in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district causing a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river and endangering the lives of people living along its banks, on February 7, 2021. (Photo | Shekhar Yadav, EPS)

A patient with breathing problems awaits for his turn to be admitted in covid ward outside Lok Nayak Jaiprakash Narayan Hospital, during the second wave, in Delhi. (Photo | Shekhar Yadav, EPS)

Marina Beach in Chennai flooded after heavy rain. Chennai received 189 mm of rainfall in the month of novenmber, the highest rainfall since 2015. (Photo | Ashwin Prasath, EPS)

A women police constable chases a motorist violating lockdown rules at Ram Nagar fish market in Hyderabad. (Photo | Vinay Madapu, EPS)

Residents of the Kendriya Vihar apartment complex in Yelahanka, Bengaluru being shifted using boats after being stranded in their homes due to heavy rains. (Photo | Shriram BN, EPS)

Medics push a stalled ambulance with patient in Delhi during the peak of the second wave. (Photo | Shekhar Yadav, EPS)

Deepu Krishnan,a caretaker of Kottoor Elephant Rehabilitation centre feeding milk to Amina, a two-and-half year old calf. The elephant was rescued by the Forest department from the Kallar forest area after its mother died of electric shock. Amina was kept in a special cell for monitoring and it started mingling with humans. (Photo | Vincent Pulickal, EPS)

Landslide at Kokkayar, Idukki district of Kerala claimed the lives of six is the second such occurrence in the area in a little over a year. According to geologists, the landslide on October 16th is a reactivated extension of the one that happened last year. (Photo | Albin Mathew, EPS)

An elderly man cradling a baby monkey in Thiruporur, Chennai. (Photo | Ashwin Prasath, EPS)

Sanitisation works at Qutub Minar and Humayun’s Tomb underway as Archeological Survey of India has decided to reopen monuments. (Photo | Shekhar Yadav, EPS)

An elderly woman, who does not wish to reveal her identity, distributes food kits to a police officer on duty at LMS Junction in Thiruvananthapuram during the second wave of Covid-19. (Photo | Vincent Pulickal, EPS)

A spotted deer feeds her 10-day-old fawn at Guindy Children’s Park in Chennai. (Photo | Martin Louis, EPS)

An elderly destitute man having his lunch supplied by a voluntary organisation, while a kitten looks on, at Gandhi Park in Thiruvananthapuram, during the covid lockdown in Kerala. (Photo | BP Deepu, EPS)

A woman attendant of a Covid patient feeds a baby as she waits outside Gandhi Hospital in Secunderabad. (Photo | Vinay Madapu, EPS)

Doctors taking part in a protest against the government for not paying them honorarium for Covid duties, carry out a candle-light march from BMRCI to Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru. (Photo | Vinod Kumar T, EPS)

A man who reached Gandhi Hospital with his leg in a cast got stranded after police personnel stopped his auto at the entrance, as the hospital was declared as an exclusive one for critical and terminally-ill Covid patients, in Hyderabad. (Photo | S Senbagapandiyan, EPS)