People are evacuated by the Indian army to a temporary shelter as they flee ethnic violence that has hit the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, near Imphal on May 7, 2023. Some 23,000 people have fled ethnic violence in northeast India that has reportedly killed at least 54, the army said on May 7, 2023, although there was no new “major violence” overnight. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Refugees from Manipur state rest at a relief camp at Lakhipur, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Sunday, May 7, 2023. Security measures are keeping the peace in the neighbouring state of Manipur where 60 people were killed and 35,000 civilians were displaced in rioting and ethnic clashes last week, officials said. (Photo by Panna Ghosh/AP Photo)





A woman with her hands decorated with henna holds her voter identity card as she waits to cast her vote at a polling station in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. People in the southern Indian state of Karnataka were voting Wednesday in an election where pre-poll surveys showed the opposition Congress party favored over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's governing Hindu nationalist party. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





A Hindu devotee seeks blessings from the Adhyapakas (religious preceptors) during a chariot procession on the occasion of the Chithirai Brahmotsavam festival, at Parthasarathy temple, in Chennai, 10 May 2023. Hundreds of Hindu devotees take part in a procession on the occasion of the Chithirai Brahmotsavam festival in the neighborhood of Triplicane. The Tamil calendar month of Chithirai commenced with the Chariot festival at the Parthasarathy temple, a 6th-century Hindu Vaishnavite temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu. Vaishnava devotees chant sacred Vedas and offer prayers to the Lord Parthasarathy. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/EPA/EFE)





Tiwa tribal people in traditional attire participate in Khelchawa festival in Jongthong village in Karbi Anglong district of Assam, India, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Tiwa tribal males celebrate the Khelchawa festival for the welfare of the villagers and to be free from the devils and unhealthy forces of nature. Magro clan of Tiwa community celebrates the festival every five years. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A woman casts her vote at a polling station in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. People in the southern Indian state of Karnataka were voting Wednesday in an election where pre-poll surveys showed the opposition Congress party favored over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's governing Hindu nationalist party. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





A penumbral lunar eclipse is seen through clouds during the early hours of Saturday in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, May 6, 2023. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





Health workers light candles to mark “international nurses day” at a government medical college in Chennai on May 12, 2023. (Photo by R.Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





Indian nurses put a garland on a portrait of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, to mark her birth anniversary on International Nurses Day, at the Government Kilpauk Medical College in Chennai, India, 12 May 2023. International Nurses Day is observed every year on 12 May to commemorate the birthday of Florence Nightingale and to honor nurses across the world for their contribution to the medical sector. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/EPA)





Sparks fly in front of the Milky Way in Himachal Pradesh, India on May 12, 2023. Lit steel wool is spun in front of the stunning cluster of stars and over a pool of water. The scene was pictured in the Himalayas, by using a 30 second exposure to capture the stars and movement of sparks. (Photo by Ganesh Bagal/Solent News/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





In this picture taken on May 14, 2023, a Hindu devotee runs on burning coal with his pierced cheeks during the Maa Maariamma Mela festival in Jalandhar. (Photo by Shammi Mehra/AFP Photo)





People enjoy at a waterpark on a hot summer day in Jalandhar on May 15, 2023. (Photo by Shammi Mehra/AFP Photo)





Women hold up their wet clothes to dry after cooling off in the sea water at the Gorai Beach along the Arabian Sea coast in Mumbai, India, 15 May 2023. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a heatwave warning for Mumbai and several parts of the state of Maharashtra. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA)





A man bathes from a roadside water tap to cool himself on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Tuesday, May 16, 2023. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





A drone view of a tanker emptying water into a well as women draw water from it in Telamwadi near Mumbai, India on May 17, 2023. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Women lower plastic containers attached to a rope to draw water from a well in Telamwadi, near Mumbai, India on May 16, 2023. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Suman Bhutambare attempts to climb out of a well after climbing in to retrieve a friend's sieve that fell inside, in Telamwadi near Mumbai, India on May 16, 2023. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A man walks with empty water bottles around his neck to fill water to be sold for drinking in New Delhi, India on May 18, 2023. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





Members of the Tibetan Women's Association hold portraits of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gendhun Choekyi Nyima, as they participate in a protest demanding his release, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May, 17, 2023. The boy lama, who is the second highest religious leader in Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy, went missing shortly after his recognition by the Dalai Lama in 1995 and has not been seen since. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A woman steers a boat as she takes children to school during a rainy morning at the Dal lake in Srinagar on May 18, 2023. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)