Tourist take a boat ride in the river Hooghly at dusk in Kolkata, India, Saturday, January 6 , 2024. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





A homeless woman awaits alms sitting under the stairway of an old building in Kolkata, India, Sunday, January 7, 2024. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





A crew works on a traditional ship under construction in Mandvi in Gujarat, India, Tuesday, January 9, 2024. This 400-year-old tradition of shipbuilding using manual tools is in decline but a few ships are still built each year to be used for fishing and transporting goods. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





Flocks of seagulls swarm small fishing boats in the first decade of January 2024 like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. Colonies of Heuglin’s gulls can be seen almost every morning on the Yamuna River in Delhi, India. (Photo by Raghav Rai Ralhan/Solent News)





Indian Air force Surya Kiran aerobatics team rehearses for an air show over Marine Drive in Mumbai, India, Friday, January 12, 2024. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





A vendor sorts turmeric at a wholesale market in Chennai on January 13, 2024, ahead of the Hindu harvest festival of “Pongal”. (Photo by R. Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





Workers prepare a temporary tent near the banks of Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, ahead of the annual Hindu religious festival “Magh Mela” in Prayagraj on January 13, 2024. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





Villagers participate in a community fishing event on the occasion of 'Bhogali Bihu' festival to mark the end of harvesting season, on a foggy winter morning at Bamuni lake, some 40 kms from Guwahati in India's Assam state on January 14, 2024. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)





Tamilian women cook pongal, a traditional rice dish, during the Thai Pongal festival celebration in Mumbai, India, 15 January 2024. Pongal, very popular in South Indian states, is a famous dish made of rice boiled in milk with jaggery and other sweeteners. Thai Pongal is a famous harvest festival celebrated by Tamilians all across the world, widely celebrated on 15 January. The significance is the offering of thanks to the sun and weather for helping obtain a bountiful harvest. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA)





A Muslim woman's face is seen during a mass marriage ceremony in which 51 Muslim couples took their wedding vows, in Mumbai, India, on January 14, 2024. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Indian Tamil Hindu women offer prayers as they cook special food to celebrate harvest festival Pongal at Dharavi, one of the world's largest slums, in Mumbai, India, Monday, January 15, 2024. This celebration, held according to the solar calendar, marks the beginning of the sun's northward movement and is considered to be auspicious. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Members of the Agniveer take part in a rehearsal for the upcoming Republic Day parade on a foggy winter morning in New Delhi, India, on January 15, 2024. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





Hindu pilgrims walk board a boat at the confluence of River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal after attending the Gangasagar mela in Sagar Island, some 150 kms South of Kolkata on January 16, 2024. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





A Hindu man carries a flag featuring Hindu god Ram to celebrate the upcoming opening of a grand temple for the Lord Ram in northern Ayodhya city, during a procession in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, January 16, 2024. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Men lead a cow over a burning haystack as a ritual to seek fortune and protection for the cattle owners to mark the Hindu festival of Makar Sankranti in Bengaluru on January 15, 2024. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/AFP Photo)





A Sikh man demonstrates his skills during a religious procession on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the tenth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, in Prayagraj on January 16, 2024. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





A man sitting on a bench overlooking the Bay of Bengal waits for the sunrise in Puducherry on January 17, 2024. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Participants try to control a bull during an annual bull-taming festival “Jallikattu” in the Alanganallur village of Madurai district on January 17, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo)





India's Border Security Force (BSF) all-women motorcycle daredevil team “Seema Bhawani” perform a stunt during a rehearsal ahead of the upcoming Republic Day parade in New Delhi on January 17, 2024. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)





India’s Border Security Force (BSF) all-women motorcycle daredevil team ‘Seema Bhawani’ perform a stunt during a rehearsal ahead of the upcoming Republic Day parade in New Delhi on January 17, 2024. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)