Mahouts ride decorated elephants as it rains during a procession on the last day of the Dussehra festivities, in Mysuru, India, Saturday, October 12, 2024. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





An idol of demon king, Mahisarura, a part of worship with Hindu goddess Durga, is seen with sweets fed by devotees before it is carried for immersion in the Hooghly River, in Kolkata, India, Sunday, October 13, 2024. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





Devotees take part in a ritual 'Sindoor Khela' wherein married women anoint each other with vermilion powder ahead of the immersion of the idol of Hindu goddess “Durga” during the Hindu festival 'Durga Puja' in Varanasi on October 13, 2024. (Photo by Niharika Kulkarni/AFP Photo)





A farmer sits on a cot placed on sacks of rice crops as he waits to sell his crop in a grain market in Karnal in the northern state of Haryana, India, on October 15, 2024. (Photo by Bhawika Chhabra/Reuters)





People wade through a flooded street amid heavy rainfall in Chennai on October 15, 2024. (Photo by R.Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





Muslim devotees pray as a priest displays a relic of Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani at his shrine in Srinagar, India, 15 October 2024. Thousands of devotees thronged to the shrine housing the relic as part of an 11-day festival to mark the death anniversary of the 11th and 12th-century Sufi mystic saint Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA)





A woman picks ears of rice left over by a paddy harvester in a field in Dabri village in the northern state of Haryana, India on October 15, 2024. (Photo by Bhawika Chhabra/Reuters)





People wade through a flooded street amid heavy rainfall in Chennai on October 16, 2024. (Photo by R.Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





A man prays in the polluted waters of river Yamuna laden with foam, during sunrise in New Delhi on October 17, 2024. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)





A Sikh child takes a dip in the holy sarovar (lake) of Golden Temple, on the eve of the birth anniversary of fourth Sikh Guru Ramdas in Amritsar on October 18, 2024. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





Workers sort kans grass, a seasonal plant mainly used in traditional crafts and ceremonies, collected along the banks of river Yamuna in New Delhi on October 18, 2024. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A camel yawns at sunset in the desert of Pushkar, located in the Indian state of Rajasthan, on October 19, 2024. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Sikh devotees take a dip in the holy sarovar (lake) on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the fourth Sikh Guru Ramdas at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on October 19, 2024. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





Workers commute through a flooded road following heavy rainfall in Bengaluru on October 21, 2024. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/AFP Photo)





A family member cries of Kashmiri doctor Shahnawaz who was among those killed when gunmen fired at people working on a strategic tunnel project in Indian-controlled Kashmir, at Nadigam village, southwest of Srinagar, Monday, October 21, 2024. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





Childrens play in the waterlogged streets following heavy rain in Bangalore, India, 21 October 2024. India Meteorological Department (IMD), weather department issued an orange alert amid intermittent rain. Due to heavy rains in Bangalore, schools are shut down today, and private offices have asked their employees to work from home, and several trees are uprooted. This comes owing to a well-marked low-pressure area over central parts of the south Bay of Bengal. (Photo by Jagadeesh N.V./EPA)





A man donning the effigy of the Hindu demon King “Ravana” walks amid the crowd during a religious procession on the occasion of Nakkataiya festival in Varanasi on October 21, 2024. (Photo by Niharika Kulkarni/AFP Photo)





Civic workers spray defoamer on the polluted waters of river Yamuna laden with foam, in New Delhi on October 22, 2024. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel rescue residents from a flooded locality following heavy rainfall, in Bengaluru on October 22, 2024. Intense rain lashed southern India on October 16, with weather officials issuing a red alert warning of flash floods and landslides. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/AFP Photo)





Volunteers pull up a huge clay image of Kali, the Hindu goddess primarily associated with time, death and destruction, on a truck to worship place, in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, October 23, 2024. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)