Nidhi Bhattacharjee, 5, dressed as a Kumari, yawns as she is worshipped by Hindu priests (unseen) as part of a ritual during the Durga Puja festival celebrations in Agartala, India, October 6, 2019. (Photo by Jayanta Dey/Reuters)





A handout photo made available by the Gandhinagar Cultural Forum shows an aerial view of some 30,000 Hindu devotees holding lighted oil lamps composing a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi to commemorate his 150th birth anniversary during a Maha Aarti Hindu ritual near Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 06 October 2019 (issued 07 October 2019). According to Shri Krashnakant Jha, President of the Gandhinagar Cultural Forum, the event was webcasted live and scores of people witnessed it across the globe. A series of celebrations marking Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary took place after the actual day on 02 October. (Photo by Gandhinagar Cultural Forum Handout/EPA/EFE)





A worker makes firecrackers at a workshop on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on October 5, 2019. Fireworks are being prepared in all India ahead of the forthcoming Hindu festival “Diwali”, or festival of Lights, which falls on October 27 this year. (Photo by Sam Panthaky/AFP Photo)





This aerial photo taken on October 4, 2019 shows a pig eating garbage in a sewage drain canal covered in waste in a low-income neighborhood in New Delhi. (Photo by Noemi Cassanelli/AFP Photo)





Tibetan monks and devotees attend second day the main Buddhist temple of Tsuglagkhang, near the town of Dharamsala, India, 04 October 2019. His Holiness holding three days of teachings on Nagarjuna's The Precious Garland of the Middle Way (uma rinchen trengwa) at the main Tibetan Temple. (Photo by Sanjay Baid/EPA/EFE)





Indian laborers lift an idol of Hindu goddess Durga on a truck ahead of Hindu festival Durga Puja in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, October 2, 2019. The festival is scheduled to run from Oct. 5 to Oct. 8. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





People are rescued in a tractor from a flooded area following heavy rainfall in Patna, India, Monday, September 30, 2019. Monsoon rains continue to batter parts of India, with dozens of people dying in the past 24 hours, officials said Sunday. (Photo by Aftab Alam Siddiqui/AP Photo)





A devotee dressed as the Hindu deity Maha Kali performs during Navratri festival celebrations in Ajmer in Rajasthan state on October 3, 2019. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/AFP Photo)





A Hindu woman reacts as “Sindhur”, or vermillion powder, is applied to her face after worshipping an idol of the Hindu goddess Durga on the last day of the Durga Puja festival in Chandigarh, India, October 8, 2019. (Photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters)





Indian Air Force (IAF) soldiers march as advanced light helicopters fly during the Indian Air Force Day celebrations at the Hindon Air Force Station on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, October 8, 2019. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





School children ride in a cycle rickshaw through a market in the old quarters of Delhi, India, October 10, 2019. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





Hindu devotees return home in the rain after offering rituals in the River Ganges in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Saturday, September 28, 2019. A heavy spell of retreating monsoon rains has flooded wide areas in northern India, killing dozens of people this week, an official said Saturday. Sandhaya Kureel, a spokeswoman of the Disaster Management and Relief Department, said most of the 59 fatalities were caused by house collapses, lightning and drowning in Uttar Pradesh state. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Houses are inundated with floodwaters in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Saturday, September 28, 2019. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, takes shelter from the rain under a cart in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Saturday, September 28, 2019. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A school teacher Dresses up as a girl as a statue depicting Indian freedom leader Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March, on the eve of Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, October 1, 2019. Dandi March is the name given to the Salt Satyagraha (Salt March) where Gandhi and other freedom fighters marched 241 miles to the sea to make their own salt on April 6, 1930 as an act of civil disobedience against the British colonial rule. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A 221-feet long effigy of the demon king Ravana is installed early morning in a ground during preparations for the upcoming Hindu festival of Dussehra or Vijaya Dashami, on the outskirts of Chandigarh, India, October 3, 2019. (Photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters)





An artisan works on a clay idol of the Hindu Goddess Durga in preparation for the forthcoming Hindu festival Durga Puja in Amritsar on September 30, 2019. The annual five-day Hindu festival worships the goddess Durga, who symbolises power and the triumph of good over evil in Hindu mythology. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





An Indian woman offers prayers at a historical Hindu Chamunda Devi temple on the first day of the nine-day long Navratri festival in Kangra,Himachal Pradesh, India, 27 September 2019. Celebrated twice a year during the spring and the fall seasons, the nine-day long Navratri festival is dedicated to the Hindu Goddess Durga. (Photo by Sanjay Baid/EPA/EFE)





An Indian artist gives final touches to an effigy of mythical demon king Ravana ahead of Hindu festival Dussehra in New Delhi, India, Friday, October 4, 2019. The effigy will be burned during the festival, which celebrates the defeat of demon king Ravana at the hands of Hindu god Rama, marking the triumph of good over evil. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Hindu devotees dressed as Hindu deity Lord Hanuman take part in a procession to mark the “Navratri” festival in Amritsar on October 5, 2019, ahead of the “Dussehra” festival. The festival of “Dussehra” is held on the last day of the “Navratri” festival, symbolising the triumph of good over evil, culminating when firecracker-stuffed effigies of the demon king are set alight. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





Police officers hold a revolver as they offer prayers to their weapons as part of a ritual at their headquarters on the occasion of Dussehra, or Vijaya Dashami, festival in Ahmedabad, India, October 8, 2019. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)