A devotee tries to break a clay pot containing curd during the celebrations to mark the Hindu festival of Janmashtami in Mumbai, India on August 27, 2024. (Photo by Hemanshi Kamani/Reuters)





Devotees gather to take part in the celebrations to mark the Krishna Janmashtami festival at a temple in Jalandhar on August 26, 2024. (Photo by Shammi Mehra/AFP Photo)





Indian devotees form a human pyramid to reach and break a “dahi-handi” (curd-pot), on the occasion of the Janmashtami Festival in Mumbai, India, 27 August 2024. Hindu devotees take part in the celebration, in which an earthen pot is suspended high above the ground and young men and children form a human pyramid to reach the pot and break it. The festival celebrates the birth of the Hindu god Lord Krishna, one of the most popular gods in Hinduism. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA/EFE)





A family wades through a flooded road after heavy rain in Ahmedabad, India, Monday, August 26, 2024. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





A policeman hits a protester, protesting against the rape and murder of a resident doctor at a government hospital earlier this month, in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, August 27, 2024. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





A man reads a newspaper on a sidewalk in the old quarters of Delhi, India on August 27, 2024. (Photo by Ainnie Arif/Reuters)





An artisan spray paints an eco-friendly idol of elephant-headed Hindu deity Ganesha made with mud, jute, and bamboo to reduce water pollution during the immersion rituals ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, at a workshop in Hyderabad on August 28, 2024. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





An artisan paints an idol of the Hindu deity Ganesha at a workshop ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, in Amritsar on August 27, 2024. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)




Exiled Tibetans wait with ceremonial scarves to welcome their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama before he arrived in Dharamshala, India, Wednesday, August 28, 2024. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





An activist of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shouts slogans after being detained by police during a protest rally, in Kolkata on August 28, 2024. Numerous protests in Kolkata prompted by the rape and murder of a doctor have transformed into unruly political rallies, with police scuffling with demonstrators from the ruling BJP angry at the state government. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





An Indian paramilitary soldier (R) stands guard as a Kashmiri Muslim elderly woman watches from her window during a door-to-door campaign of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Ashok Bhat (not pictured) for the upcoming assembly elections, in the Habba Kadal area of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 August 2024. India’s Election Commission on 16 August announced that Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly elections will be held over three phases from 18 September to 01 October 2024. This is the first election to be held in Jammu and Kashmir since the territory's special status was revoked in 2019. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA/EFE)





People carry idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh from the workshop to pandal, a temporary shelter, ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, Saturday, August 31, 2024. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





People carry their belongings as they wade through a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains, in Vijayawada on September 2, 2024. Intense monsoon rains and floods in India's southern states have killed at least 25 people, with thousands rescued and taken to relief camps, disaster officials said on September 2. (Photo by Chandu Lumburu/AFP Photo)





People sleep outside their makeshift homes under an old iron railway bridge over the Yamuna River, in the old quarters of Delhi, India on September 3, 2024. (Photo by Ainnie Arif/Reuters)





Sikh youths hold swords as they raise slogans during a religious procession from the Gurudwara Ramsar to Akal Takht Sahib at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on September 4, 2024, on the occasion of the anniversary of installation of the Sikh holy book Guru Granth Sahib. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





A man works on an idol of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, at his workshop in Ahmedabad, India on September 4, 2024. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A woman removes rainwater that inundated outside her house on the banks of Yamuna River in the old quarters of Delhi, India on September 4, 2024. (Photo by Ainnie Arif/Reuters)





Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Saint Teresa, chant 'happy feast day' on the saint's death anniversary, in Kolkata, India, Thursday, September 5, 2024. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





Children wear masks in the guise of Hindu deity Ganesha, at a school in Chennai on September 6, 2024, on the eve of Ganesh Chaturthi festival. (Photo by R.Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





Students hold on to a rope as they cross a street flooded after heavy rains, on their way home in Ajmer, India, Friday, September 6, 2024. (Photo by Deepak Sharma/AP Photo)