Kali Puja was celebrated in Kolkata and West Bengal with zeal and religious flavor ahead of Dewali or Deepavali in Kolkata, India on November 11, 2015. Residential houses and public place were illuminated with candle and lamps. People use fireworks as part of Festivity. (Photo by Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire)





An elephant drinks water from a tap before a show at the Raj Mahal Circus in Bhopal, India,19 November 2015. The Indian circus industry which is one of the oldest popular forms of entertainment struggles nowadays and number of travelling circus troups decreased over the past few decades. (Photo by Sanjeev Gupta/EPA)





Indian people gather around a residential area that was flooded after heavy rains in Chennai on November 18, 2015. Large areas of the southern Indian city of Chennai have been flooded following days of heavy rain. (Photo by AFP Photo)





An Indian couple rides past a movie hall displaying a poster of the latest James Bond movie "Spectre," in New Delhi, India, Thursday, November 19, 2015. India's film censor authorities have ordered that kissing scenes in the film be shortened before it is released in the country. (Photo by Saurabh Das/AP Photo)





An Indian woman pushes a cart on the waterlogged Marina Beach after heavy rainfall in Chennai, India, Friday, November 13, 2015. Heavy rains lashed Chennai and other parts of Tamil Nadu state Friday, throwing life out of gear and disrupting train and flight schedules even as dozens were killed in rain related incidents, according to news reports. The Indian Meteorological Department has warned of more rains over the weekend. (Photo by Arun Sankar K./AP Photo)





A customer tries a gold necklace at a jewellery showroom on the occasion of Dhanteras, a Hindu festival associated with Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, at a market in Mumbai, India, November 9, 2015. Hindus purchase ornaments and utensils on the festival, celebrated two days before Diwali, the festival of lights. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)





Labourers unload garlands of marigold flowers to sell at a wholesale flower market on the eve of Diwali, the annual festival of lights in Kolkata, India, November 10, 2015. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A man dressed as Hindu monkey god Hanuman performs on a street during Hanuman Jayanti Festival in Allahabad, India, November 10, 2015. In Allahabad, Hanuman Jayanti is celebrated to commemorate the birth of Lord Hanuman on the eve of Diwali, the festival of lights. (Photo by Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)





A Kashmiri woman burns fallen leaves and twigs to make charcoal in preparation for winter in Srinagar November 12, 2015. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A labourer waits for his colleague to carry a sack of onions after weighing it at a wholesale vegetable market in Kolkata, India, November 12, 2015. India's annual consumer price inflation edged up to 5.0 percent in October, up for the third straight month, compared with 4.41 percent a month ago, government data showed on Thursday. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A roadside barber cuts the hair of a customer at a wholesale vegetable market in Kolkata, India, November 12, 2015. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Hindu devotees hold up scarves to receive rice as offerings being distributed by the temple authority on the occasion of the Annakut festival in Kolkata, India, November 12, 2015. Annakut is celebrated on the first day of the full moon in the Kartik month where 56 types of food items are prepared and given to the worshippers. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Workers sort sweet limes while unloading them from a truck at a wholesale fruit market in Kolkata, India, November 13, 2015. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A labourer carries a sack filled with dried red chillies after unloading it from a supply truck at a wholesale market in Ahmedabad, India, November 16, 2015. India's wholesale prices dropped for a 12th straight month in October, falling an annual 3.81 percent mainly due to easing fuel prices, government data showed on Monday. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A Kashmiri woman sleeps amid fallen leaves of a Chinar tree at the Mughal Gardens in Srinagar, November 17, 2015. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A Hindu woman and her child worship on the banks of river Sabarmati after offering prayers to the Sun god Surya during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in Ahmedabad, India, November 17, 2015. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A Hindu woman worships the Sun god Surya in the waters of river Sabarmati during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in Ahmedabad, India, November 17, 2015. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Hindu women prepare to worship the Sun god Surya on the banks of river Sabarmati during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in Ahmedabad, India, November 17, 2015. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A woman has her forehead smeared with vermilion powder after worshipping the Sun god Surya in the waters of a lake during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in Agartala, India, November 17, 2015. (Photo by Jayanta Dey/Reuters)





A Hindu woman worships the Sun god Surya in the waters of a lake during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in Chandigarh, India, November 17, 2015. Hindu women fast for the whole day for the betterment of their family and the society during the festival. (Photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters)





Hindu women worship the Sun god Surya while standing in the waters of the Arabian Sea during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in Mumbai, India, November 17, 2015. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)





Hindu women worship the Sun god Surya while standing in the waters of the Arabian Sea during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in Mumbai, India, November 17, 2015. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)





A Hindu woman dries a saree, a traditional cloth used for women's clothing, on the shores of the Arabian Sea after worshipping the Sun god Surya during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in Mumbai, India, November 17, 2015. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)





Hindu devotees gather on the banks of river Ganga to perform rituals to the Sun god Surya during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in Kolkata, India, November 17, 2015. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A Hindu woman steps over a child in a ritual seeking blessings for the child from the Sun god Surya during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in Kolkata, India, November 17, 2015. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Hindu women worship the Sun god Surya while standing in the waters of the Arabian Sea during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in Mumbai, India, November 17, 2015. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)





Hindu women offer prayers as they wait for the rising sun while standing in the waters of a lake during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in Chandigarh, India, November 18, 2015. During this festival, Hindu women fast for the whole day for the betterment of their families and society. (Photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters)





Hindu women worship the sun god Surya while standing in the waters of a pond during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in Kolkata, India, November 18, 2015. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Hindu devotees gather on the banks of a lake to offer prayers to the rising sun during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in Chandigarh, India, November 18, 2015. (Photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters)





Hindu women offer prayers as they wait for the rising sun while standing in the waters of river Ganga during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in Allahabad, India, November 18, 2015. During this festival, Hindu women fast for the whole day for the betterment of their families and society. (Photo by Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)





A Hindu woman offers prayers as she waits for the rising sun while sitting next to the polluted waters of Yamuna river during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in New Delhi, India, November 18, 2015. Hindu women fast for the whole day for the betterment of their families and the society during the festival. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)





Hindu women worship the sun god Surya in the polluted waters of Yamuna river during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in New Delhi, India, November 18, 2015. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)





A Hindu devotee takes his selfie while sitting on a boat before offering prayers to the rising sun in the polluted waters of Yamuna river during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in New Delhi, India, November 18, 2015. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)





Jaswinder Kaur, a farmer, removes whitefly pest from cotton pods after plucking them from her damaged Bt cotton field on the outskirts of Bhatinda in Punjab, India, in this October 28, 2015 file photo. (Photo by Munish Sharma/Reuters)





Farmer Darshan Singh plucks cotton from his damaged Bt cotton field on the outskirts of Bhatinda in Punjab, India, in this October 28, 2015 file photo. (Photo by Munish Sharma/Reuters)





Indian Hindu devotees offer prayers to the sun during the Chhath festival on the banks of the Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad on November 17, 2015. Hindu devotees pay obeisance to both the rising and the setting sun in the Chhath festival when people express their thanks and seek the blessings of the forces of nature, mainly the sun and river. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





A picture made available on 15 November 2015 shows Tiwa tribal women harvesting paddy in a Jhum field in the remote Karbi Anglong district of Assam State, India, 13 November 2015. Tiwa is a major tribe of Assam state who practice Jhum or shifting cultivation for their living in the hills. Harvesting season has started in the Jhum fields which will continue till December. (Photo by EPA/Stringer)





Indian Hindu devotees perform rituals at sunset in the Yamuna River during the Chhath Puja festival in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, November 17, 2015. During Chhath, an ancient Hindu festival, rituals are performed to thank the Sun god for sustaining life on earth. (Photo by Tsering Topgyal/AP Photo)





Indian cattle herders warm themselves around a bonfire early morning at the annual cattle fair in Pushkar, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, Friday, November 20, 2015. Pushkar is a popular Hindu pilgrimage spot that is also frequented by foreign tourists who come to the town for its annual cattle fair. (Photo by Deepak Sharma/AP Photo)





A caretaker gives a bath to an elephant from Kanha and Panna National Parks, in Kaliasot river in Bhopal, India, 17 November 2015. (Photo by Sanjeev Gupta/EPA)





In this November 16, 2015 photo, an Indian couple with a child and a woman wait for a bus ride in the fringes of a sidewalk separating lanes in an avenue in southern New Delhi during rush hour. India's capital, with 18 million residents, has the world's most polluted air with six times the amount of small particulate matter (pm2.5) than what is considered safe, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The air's hazardous amount of pm2.5 can reach deep into the lungs and enter the blood, causing serious long term health effect, with the WHO warning India has the world's highest death rate from chronic respiratory diseases. India, home to 13 of the world's top 20 polluted cities, is also the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind the United States and China. In Delhi, the air pollution is due to vehicle traffic including cargo trucks running on low-grade diesel, individual fires that residents burn in winter, crop being burnt by farmers in neighboring states, and construction site dust. Burning coal in power plants is also major contributor that is expected to increase hugely in the coming decades to match electricity needs of the ever-growing city and its booming satellite towns. (Photo by Roberto Schmidt/AFP Photo)





Indian Hindu devotees offer prayers during the 'Chhat Puja' on the banks of the Brahmaputra River in Guwahati on November 17, 2015. Devotees pay obeisance to both the rising and the setting sun during the Chhath Festival, expressing thanks and seeking the blessings of the forces of nature, mainly the sun and rivers. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)





An Indian Sikh Nihang (a traditional Sikh religious warrior) Baba 'Avtar' Singh wears an oversized giant traditional turban as he pay respects at the Golden temple in Amritsar on November 10, 2015 on the eve of the Indian festival of Diwali, the festival of lights. There will be no spectacular show of light and fireworks this Diwali at the Golden Temple as the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has decided not to celebrate the festival in the wake of series of incidents of alleged desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh holy book). (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)