Urban Festivals

City Nature Challenge Delhi 2026 Cities are often imagined as places far removed from nature. Yet Delhi continues to support a remarkable diversity of life—birds in neighbourhood parks, insects in roadside vegetation, fungi after the rains, and plants quietly growing in forgotten corners of the city. The City Nature Challenge invites people across the world to step outside and document the biodiversity of their cities using the iNaturalist platform. Over a few days, citizens

In a fast-growing city like Delhi, surrounded by traffic, concrete, and constant movement, it is easy to assume that nature exists somewhere far away from us. Yet the city continues to pulse with life. Birds move through its skies, insects hum among roadside trees, fungi emerge quietly after rains, and small plants find ways to grow through cracks in pavements. Delhi is not separate from nature—it is part of it. But how often do we stop to notice? City Nature Challenge is an

In older calendars, festivals were marked by the moon, the harvest, the monsoon, or the turning of seasons. They were moments when communities paused ordinary life to pay attention—to abundance, scarcity, gratitude, or renewal. In today’s cities, however, seasons blur under concrete, time is measured by deadlines, and attention is the most endangered resource of all. Yet, quietly, new kinds of festivals are emerging—ones that do not demand ritual fire or grand procession, but