A man holds his shoes as he travels on a bus through a waterlogged road after heavy rainfall in Kolkata, India, on September 24, 2025. (Photo by Sahiba Chawdhary/Reuters)





A man spreads harvested paddy rice to dry in the sun on the outskirts of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 26 September 2025. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA)





An artisan gives finishing touches to an idol of Hindu goddess Durga at a workshop amid Durga Puja festivities in Mumbai, India, Friday, September 26, 2025. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





People mourn the death of a loved one following a stampede accident in Karur, Tamil Nadu, India, 28 September 2025. At least 39 people died in a stampede that occurred on 27 September during a campaign event by Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) party leader Vijay, the health minister of Tamil Nadu said. (Photo by Ragul Krishnan/EPA)





People bathe on the banks of the river Ganges early in the morning, in Kolkata, India, on September 29, 2025. (Photo by Sahiba Chawdhary/Reuters)





An Indian priest performs the religious ritual of arti to worship Goddess Durga during the Durga Puja festival in Mumbai, India, 29 September 2025. The five-day-long Hindu festival is widely celebrated in the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam, Jharkhand, Orissa, and Tripura. Durga Puja culminates in the immersion of the idols of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who symbolises power and the triumph of good over evil in Hindu mythology. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA)





An Indian vendor sells colorful bamboo baskets roadside in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India, Tuesday, September 30, 2025. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Indian girl, Amrita Bannerjee, gets dressed as the Goddess Durga, during Kumari Puja ritual as part of the Durga Puja festival at Shidaspur village, far north of Kolkata, India, 30 September 2025. During the Kumari Puja, devotees worship a girl aged between six and twelve, symbolizing the Kanya Kumari (virgin) form of the Goddess Durga Devi. Hindu devotees believe that Kanya is a living embodiment of the goddess Durga. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA)





A labourer prepares an effigy of demon king Ravana ahead of Dussehra celebrations in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 01 October 2025. The effigies are burnt during the Hindu festival, which commemorates the triumph of Lord Rama over Ravana and marks the victory of good over evil. Dussehra, also known as Vijayadashami, falls on 02 October this year. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA)





Workers carry an effigy of Meghnath, son of the Hindu mythological demon king Ravana, ritualistically burnt on the occasion of Dussehra-Vijaya Dashami festival in Varanasi on October 1, 2025. (Photo by Niharika Kulkarni/AFP Phoot)





Hindu women smear vermillion on each other on the final day of the Durga Puja festival in Mumbai, India, Thursday, October 2, 2025. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





Indian women devotees of the Bengali community, pose after applying sindoor, or vermillion, to each other's faces as they took part in the “Sindoor Puja”, a ritual performed before the immersion of Goddess Durga idols into bodies of water on the last day of the Durga Puja festival in Mumbai, India, 02 October 2025. The Sindoor Puja marks the end of the Durga Puja festival. This five-day Hindu festival is widely celebrated in the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Tripura. It culminates in the immersion of idols of the Hindu goddess Durga, who symbolizes power and the triumph of good over evil in Hindu mythology. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA)





A woman carries a child amid heavy rain in Jammu and Kashmir in Srinagar, India on October 6, 2025. (Photo by Basit Zargar/Zuma Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Soldiers from an Indian Air Force drill team display their skills during celebrations marking the 93rd anniversary of the Indian Air Force at the Hindon Air Force Station in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, 08 October 2025. The Indian Air Force marked its 93rd anniversary on 08 October. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)





British Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends a ceremony to celebrate the approaching Diwali festival, during his visit to India, in Mumbai, India, on October 8, 2025. (Photo by Stefan Rousseau/Pool via Reuters)





A giant idol of Goddess Kali is transported to a temporary structure of worship called Pandel, ahead of the Kali Puja festival celebration, in Kolkata, India, on October 10, 2025. (Photo by Debarchan Chatterjee/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Muslim devotees pray outside the shrine of Muslim preacher and Sufi saint, Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani, as the head priest of the shrine displays his relics on the Friday following the Urs (death anniversary) of the saint in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 10 October 2025. Thousands of devotees thronged to the shrine housing the relic of the saint, during their 11-day festival to mark the death anniversary of the 11th and 12th-century Sufi mystic saint. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA)





LG's first radio, the 1959 Goldstar (now LG) A-501 vacuum tube radio, is shown at the listing ceremony of LG Electronics India Limited's Initial Public Offering (IPO) at the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in Mumbai, India, on October 14, 2025. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





People browse colorful lanterns for sale at a local market ahead of the Diwali festival in Mumbai, India, 14 October 2025. The Hindu Festival of Lights, or Diwali, symbolizes the victory of good over evil, light over darkness, and marks Lord Rama's return to his kingdom, Ayodhya, after completing a 14-year exile. The main day of Diwali will be celebrated on 20 October this year. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA)





An artisan gives the final touches to an idol of the Hindu goddess Kali on the eve of the Hindu festival of Diwali at Kumortuli, the traditional potters' quarter in northern Kolkata on October 14, 2025. (Photo by Dipa Chakraborty/Pacific Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)