Tourists and locals walk past a Santa Claus statue placed on a beach for a film shoot in the southern Indian city of Kochi December 10, 2012. (Photo by Sivaram V/Reuters)





People walk through barricades set up on a decorated street ahead of New Year's Eve celebrations in Bangalore, India, Sunday, December 31, 2017. Security was tight in the southern Indian city of Bangalore to prevent a repeat of incidents of alleged groping and molestation of several women during last year's New Year's Eve celebrations. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





Artist Biju Nair gets ready for his performance in his tent behind the main show area at Rambo Circus in Mumbai, India, 04 November 2017. Biju Nair, 47, from Trivendrampuram, Kerala, joined the circus at a very early age. He literally ran away from home and ended up in Mumbai. Biju Nair wandered into a circus and found a job as ticket taker. He did all sort of jobs in the circus as ticket taker, bouncer, announcer and clown. Biju Nair was always fascinated by clown acts. He always tries to improve himself with new acts and learns from international clowns by watching online videos. He is in the circus industry for 38 years and since he was 18 he is performing as clown. Biju Nair had so many ups and down in his life but always enjoys making people laugh. He has two children who live in Kerala where they get education in school which he did not get. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA/EFE)





Kashmiri villagers look on during the funeral of militant commander Noor Mohammad Tantray in the Aripal village of Tral district on December 26, 2017. Government forces have killed the commander of a Pakistan-based militant group in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said December 26, as the disputed territory ended its deadliest year for a decade. Noor Mohammad Tantray, the head in the Kashmir valley of the Jaish-e-Mohammad group, was trapped in a house outside the main city of Srinagar on Monday evening along with his associates, triggering a fierce overnight gunbattle. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





Indian paramilitary force soldiers take position at the site where suspected rebels stormed a paramilitary camp at southern Lethpora village in Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, December 31, 2017. A number of Indian soldiers and suspected militants were killed Sunday after rebels stormed a paramilitary camp in disputed Kashmir, officials said. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





A banner displayed by Indian police informing people that the area is under surveillance of closed-circuit television cameras on New Year's Eve in Bangalore, India, Sunday, December 31, 2017. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





Indian women carry flowers to be thrown into the sea as an offering during a ceremony for the victims of the 2004 tsunami at Pattinapakkam Beach in Chennai on December 26, 2017. The earthquake and tsunami that struck the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004 killed over 230,000 people and devastated coastal communities, including the shorelines of the southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Indian children ride on a motorbike driven by a man along a street in Jalandhar on December 31, 2017. (Photo by Shammi Mehra/AFP Photo)





A woman looks at religious lockets at a stall outside a church during the Christmas celebrations in Chandigarh, India, December 25, 2017. (Photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters)





Workers climb scaffolding to clean the walls of the historic Red Fort in the old quarters of Delhi, India December 27, 2017. (Photo by Saumya Khandelwal/Reuters)





Children ride a manually-operated ferris wheel in a slum in Mumbai, India, December 27, 2017. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





Fishermen cover their heads and part of their boats with blankets and straw as they wait to catch fish in the waters of the Anchar Lake on a cold winter day in Srinagar December 28, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





Firefighters carry a victim on a stretcher after a fire at a restaurant in Mumbai, India, December 29, 2017. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A street vendor sells wrist watches at a bus terminal in New Delhi, India, December 29, 2017. (Photo by Saumya Khandelwal/Reuters)





People watch as pyres burn at a cremation ground on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India April 7, 2017. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





A schoolgirl reacts as she gets her face painted during celebrations to welcome the New Year at her school in Ahmedabad, India, December 30, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Students react as water from earthen pitchers is poured on them to take a holy bath during a ceremony organised to resemble the annual month-long Hindu religious festival of Magh Mela, held during the Hindu month of Magh, in Ahmedabad, India, January 1, 2018. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A man gets ready backstage before performing in the 34th Cochin Carnival which is held annually to welcome the start of the New Year at Fort Kochi in the southern state of Kerala, India, January 1, 2018. (Photo by Sivaram V/Reuters)





Students participate in a Christmas Rally ahead of Christmas in Kolkata, West Bengal, India on December 23, 2017. (Photo by Saikat Paul/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)





A Kashmiri man with a child walks past Indian paramilitary soldiers guarding outside a camp where suspected rebels stormed a paramilitary camp at southern Lethpora village in Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, December 31, 2017. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





An Indian woman walks past metal detectors which are to be placed on a busy street for New Year's Eve celebrations in Bangalore, India, Sunday, December 31, 2017. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





An Indian paramilitary force soldier takes cover behind a tree at the site where suspected rebels stormed a paramilitary camp at southern Lethpora village, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, December 31, 2017. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





Passengers wait for a train amidst early morning dense fog at a railway station in Lucknow, India, Monday, December 25, 2017. In the winter months, northern India experiences fog enveloped mornings that reduce visibility severely, often leading to delays and cancellation of trains and flights. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A man sells balloons and marigold flower garlands at a traffic roundabout on New Year's day in Greater Noida, outskirts of New Delhi, India, Monday, January 1, 2018. A lot of commuters were Monday buying balloons and flower garlands to decorate their vehicles, shops and houses on the first day of the New Year. Signage of a hospital in Hindi language is seen behind the balloons. (Photo by R.S. Iyer/AP Photo)





Frozen sherry tree leaves are pictured on a cold and foggy morning in Srinagar on December 25, 2017. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





Indian school girls take part in a self-defence camp at a police training school in New Delhi on December 28, 2017. Over hundered women and children participated at the opening ceremony of the self-defence training winter camp being organised by the special police unit for women and children. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)





An Indian Sikh devotee pays respect in the early morning on the occasion of the New Year 2018 at the Golden temple in Amritsar on January 1, 2018. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





This picture taken on December 31, 2017 shows an Indian sadhu preparing food at a camp at Sangam, ahead of the Magh Mela festival, in Allahabad. The Magh Mela, which is known as a mini-Kumbh Mela, is scheduled to start January 2 and continue until February 13 with auspicious bathing dates throughout the 45 day period. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





A Kashmiri Muslim cleric (wearing green turban) displays a relic (inside glass tube) of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani, a Sufi saint, also known as Shah-e-Baghdad (King of Baghdad), on Jeelani's death anniversary in Srinagar December 30, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)