Chef Jagan S makes mandala art on a watermelon during the Food for Thought Fest in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, March 8, 2024. The Food for Thought Fest, organised by South Asian Association for Gastronomy, showcases the diverse culinary heritage of the South Asian region and cuisines. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





A dhobi, or a washerman hangs cloths for drying after washing them on the banks of the River Gomti in Lucknow, northern Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, March 10, 2024. Dhobis are traditional laundry workers who wash clothes by hand and dry them in the sun, an occupation which has been in existence for generations. This practice is still popular in many parts of India, despite of modern technology. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A cow feeds on waste material at a dumping ground in Varanasi on March 11, 2024. (Photo by Niharika Kulkarni/AFP Photo)





Muslim women offer noon prayers inside the Jamia mosque during the first day of Ramadan in Srinagar, India on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Sharafat Ali/Reuters)





Members of the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) take part in a torch rally as they protest against the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Guwahati on March 12, 2024. India's interior ministry said March 11 it was enacting a citizenship law that critics say discriminates against Muslims, just weeks before the world's most populous country heads into a general election. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)





Children of a fruit vendor selling pineapple on a horse cart share a moment as they await customers by a road side in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, March 14, 2024. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Muslims offer prayers on a roadside during the third day of the fasting month of Ramadan in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 14 March 2024. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA/EFE)





Models present creations by Indian designer Gaurang during the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) in Mumbai, India, 14 March 2024. The FDCI x Lakme Fashion Week runs from 13 to 17 March 2024. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA)





Muslims break their fast together by sharing a meal in the courtyard of Jama Masjid on the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, March 15, 2024. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





A model presents creations by Indian designers Paras and Shalini during the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) in Mumbai, India, 15 March 2024. The FDCI x Lakme Fashion Week runs from 13 to 17 March 2024. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA)





Art school students pose with posters illustrating the upcoming India's parliamentary elections, in Mumbai on March 16, 2024. (Photo by Indranil Mukherjee/AFP Photo)





A transgender woman dances during the Laddu Holi celebrations at the Radharani temple of Barssana – Uttar Prades in Mathurah on March 17, 2024. The spring festival of colours at Radharani temple in Barsana village of India's Uttar Pradesh is the first day of Celebration of the main Holi Festival. This festival the devotees and priests of Barsana Temple throw Laddu (Traditional Sweet) on each other. Holi is a spring festival also known as the festival of colours or the festival of love. (Photo by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Women hit revellers with sticks during “Lathmar Holi” as part of the Hindu spring festival Holi at the Radharani temple on March 18, 2024 in Barsana, Uttar Pradesh, India. Holi, the vibrant festival of colors, celebrates the arrival of spring with joyous gatherings, colorful powders, and a spirit of unity and renewal, and is one of the key national Hindu festivals celebrated across India and abroad. (Photo by Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images)





Villagers from Barsana and Nandgaon smeared with colors play Lathmar Holi at Nandagram temple in Nandgoan village, 115 kilometers (70 miles) south of New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Women from Nandgaon, the birthplace of Hindu God Krishna, beat the men from Barsana, the legendary birthplace of Radha, the consort of Krishna, with wooden sticks in response to their efforts to put color on them. The same act is then replicated in Barsana between the women of that village and the men of Nandgaon as they observe the Lathmar Holi festival, a celebration of love and friendship. (Photo by Kabir Jhangiani/AP Photo)





Men daubed in colours throw colours at each other during “Lathmar Holi” celebrations inside a temple premises in the town of Nandgaon, Uttar Pradesh, India on March 19, 2024. (Photo by Ritesh Shukla/Reuters)





College students with painted faces spread awareness for first generation voters during an election campaign ahead of India's upcoming national elections in Chennai on March 19, 2024. (Photo by R Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





An Indian artist dressed as the Hindu deity Bhagawathy waits to perform during the traditional dance festival “Theyyam” also known as “Kaliyattam”, at Muthappa Swami temple in Somwarpet on March 19, 2024. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/AFP Photo)





A woman dances as she participates in a procession to mark Falgun Mahotsav ahead of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Village women work in a paddy field on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Kashmiri Muslims pray inside the shrine of Shah-e-Hamadan during the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Muslims across the world are marking the holy month of Ramadan, a period of intense prayer, self-discipline, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)