Indian children of local boatmen play atop submerged restroom at Daraganj Ghat as they bath on the flooded banks of the Ganges river in Allahabad on September 11, 2018. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





In this Tuesday, August 7, 2018 photo, mask maker Khagen Goswami wears a mask of Hindu monkey god Hanuman at Samaguri Satra, a Vaishnavite monastery, in Majuli, India. Vaishnavite practice is credited with preserving the culture of mask-making, an integral part of the dance dramas or Bhaonas. At the Samaguri Satra, the monks use locally available bamboo, cane, clay, paper, jute and cow dung to shape and paint masks depicting characters from Hindu mythology. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





In this Tuesday, August 7, 2018, photo, a guru, or teacher, helps a young Hindu monk practice Mati Akhora devotional performing art at a Satra, or Vaishnavite monastery, in Majuli, India. This centuries-old tradition is being kept alive in Majuli island, one of the world’s largest river islands, home to more than 20 Vaishnavite monasteries. Vaishnavism is a religious movement, a monotheist offshoot of Hinduism that reveres God Vishnu and one of his most popular reincarnations, Krishna. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Border Security Force (BSF) distribute food food and water to residents who are stuck in their houses as well who have not vacated houses at Allapy on August 21, 2018 in Kerala, India. Over 400 people have reportedly died in the southern Indian state of Kerala after weeks of monsoon rains which caused the worst flooding in nearly a century and displaced more than one million people that have been forced to take shelter in thousands of relief camps across Kerala. Flood waters and rain have receded this week as the massive cleanup begins and the Indian armed forces continue efforts to rescue thousands of stranded people and get relief supplies to isolated areas. (Photo by Atul Loke/Getty Images)





In this August 26, 2018, file photo, models display creations by Monisha Jaising at the grand finale during Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai, India. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





An Indian Hindu devotee breaks a dahi-handi (curd-pot) suspended in the air atop a human pyramid during celebrations for the Janmashtami festival, which marks the birth of Hindu God Lord Krishna, in Mumbai on September 3, 2018. (Photo by Indranil Mukherjee/AFP Photo)





A trader sleeps amidst his goats at a livestock market ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in the old quarters of Delhi, India August 21, 2018. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





People carry a goat in an autorickshaw after purchasing it at a livestock market on the eve of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in Mumbai, August 21, 2018. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A worker looks on as he dismantles a part of a used car engine inside a workshop at a second-hand automobile parts market in Kolkata, August 24, 2018. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A boy looks on as Muslims offer Eid al-Adha prayers on a street in Kolkata, August 22, 2018. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Labourers carry bananas after unloading them from supply trucks at a wholesale fruit market in Kolkata, India, August 29, 2018. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Workers assemble tricycles inside a manufacturing unit in Ahmedabad, India, August 30, 2018. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Students dressed as Hindu Lord Shiva, also known as Nataraja, the Lord of Dancers, during a religious event in Mumbai, India, August 30, 2018. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Workers watch their mobile phones as they rest in cots during a break inside a workshop in Kolkata, India August 28, 2018. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Volunteers clean a flood-hit residential house following floods in Kuttanad in Alappuzha district in the southern state of Kerala, India, August 28, 2018. (Photo by Sivaram V/Reuters)





A man covers himself with a plastic sheet as he walks through a street during rain in Kolkata, India on August 31, 2018. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Hindu devotees pour milk over the idol of Hindu Lord Krishna during the festival of Janmashtami, marking the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna, in Ahmedabad, India, September 3, 2018. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Farmers and labourers listen to a speaker during a protest against what they say is anti-people policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, in New Delhi, India, September 5, 2018. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A man cleans a statue of Saint Mother Teresa on a pavement ahead of her death anniversary, in Kolkata, India September 4, 2018. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Iram Khan, 17, practices on a flight simulator as her instructor looks on at the Bombay Flying Club's College of Aviation in Mumbai, India, August 28, 2018. Picture taken August 28, 2018. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





People stand next to the wreckage of vehicles at the site of a bridge that collapsed in Kolkata, September 4, 2018. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Sikh devotees perform Gatka, a traditional martial arts form during celebrations to mark the 414th anniversary of the installation of the Guru Granth Sahib, the religious book of Sikhs, in Amritsar, India, September 10, 2018. (Photo by Munish Sharma/Reuters)





An idol of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, is loaded onto a truck to be transported to a place of worship ahead of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival, in Ahmedabad, India on September 11, 2018. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





This photo taken on August 30, 2018 shows an Indian mahout sitting on his elephant as it washes itself at the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, some 45km from Guwahati. - India is home to around 25,000 Asian elephants but their numbers are dwindling mainly due to poaching and the destruction of their habitats by human populations. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)





Baptised Sikh girls take a photo at the Golden Temple, the holiest of Sikh shrines during the 414th first installation anniversary of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of Sikhs in Amritsar, India, 10 September 2018. Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Sikh Guru, installed Guru Granth Sahib for the first time at the Golden Temple in the year 1604. (Photo by Raminder Pal Singh/EPA/EFE)