Indian army soldiers display an exercise along the Line of Control or LOC between India and Pakistan during a media tour arranged by the Indian army in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch sector, India, Saturday, August 12, 2023. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





An Indian artist dressed in the guise of lord Shiva along with Hindu devotees take part in a religious procession During the holy month of Shravan, in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 13 August 2023. (Photo by ABACA Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) before a full dress rehearsal parade to celebrate India’s 76th Independence Day on August 13, 2023 in Bengaluru, India. India gained independence from Great Britain in 1947. (Photo by Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images)





People hold India's national flags as part of the “Akhand Sankalp Tiranga Yatra” in Narmada river on the eve of country's Independence Day celebrations in Jabalpur on August 14, 2023. (Photo by Uma Shankar Mishra/AFP Photo)





Pakistani soldiers stand guard at the tomb of national poet Allama Mohammad Iqbal during country's Independence Day celebrations in Lahore on August 14, 2023. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





City landmark Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj terminus building is lit in the colors of the Indian flag on the eve of Independence Day in Mumbai, India, Monday, August 14, 2023. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Members of the Indian Army Service Corps (ASC) team known as the “Tornadoes” display their motorbike skills during Independence Day celebrations in Bangalore, India, 15 August 2023. India is marking the 77th anniversary of its independence from British rule. (Photo by Jagadeesh N.V./EPA)





A woman carrying water walks at a slum where an Indian flag is displayed on Independence Day in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, August 15, 2023. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India’s economy will be among the top three in the world within five years, as he marked 76 years of independence from British rule on Tuesday. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Indian soldiers prepare for the guard of honour before the arrival of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Red Fort during the celebrations to mark the country's 77th Independence Day in New Delhi on August 15, 2023. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)





Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel offers sweets to each other on the occasion of the country's 77th Independence Day celebrations at India-Pakistan Wagah Border post, some 35 km from Amritsar on August 15, 2023. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





Assam Police women personnel take part in a parade during India's Independence Day celebrations in Guwahati, India, Tuesday, August 15, 2023. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A devotee walks past a gate of a Parsi fire temple featuring carvings of ancient priests on the occasion of the Parsi New Year in Mumbai, India on August 16, 2023. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Confetti and smoke in the colors of the Indian national flag mark the entry of INS Vindhyagiri, a new warship for the Indian navy, into the Hooghly river in Kolkata, India, Thursday, August 17, 2023. This P17A series warship, built by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers in Kolkata, was launched by the Indian President Droupadi Murmu Thursday. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





Confetti and smoke in the colors of the Indian national flag mark the entry of INS Vindhyagiri, a new warship for the Indian navy, into the Hooghly river in Kolkata, India, Thursday, August 17, 2023. This P17A series warship, built by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers in Kolkata, was launched by the Indian President Droupadi Murmu Thursday. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





A boy walks past the idols of Hindu deity Ganesha along a road ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, on the outskirts of Hyderabad on August 18, 2023. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





Local musicians blow horns as a Hindu priest, face smeared with color and sacrificial blood, performs rituals during the Deodhani festival at the Kamakhya Hindu temple in Guwahati, India, Saturday, August 19, 2023. Goats and pigeons are commonly offered as sacrifice in the belief that participants receive supernatural power from goddess Kamakhya during the festival held to worship the serpent Goddess. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Artists wait to participate in a procession marking 'Atham', the first day of ten-days long Onam festival in Kochi, Kerala state, India, Sunday, August 20, 2023. (Photo by R.S. Iyer/AP Photo)





Hindu devotees queue up to offer prayers at a temple during the annual Hindu Nag Panchami festival, dedicated to the worship of snakes in Prayagraj, India, Monday, August 21, 2023. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Children wave Indian flags at their school premises in Mumbai, India as they cheer for the successful landing of India’s moon craft Chandrayaan-3, on the moon surface, Tuesday, August 22, 2023. India’s previous attempt to land a robotic spacecraft near the moon’s little-explored south pole ended in failure in 2019. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





Students with painted faces gather in support of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft in Chennai on August 22, 2023. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) confirmed that the lander module of the Chandrayaan-3, which means "Mooncraft" in Sanskrit, had “successfully separated” from the propulsion module six days ahead of a planned landing slated for August 23. India launched a rocket on July 14 carrying an unmanned spacecraft to land on the Moon, its second attempt to do so as its cut-price space programme seeks to reach new heights. (Photo by R.Satish Babu/AFP Photo)