Indian Hindu devotees throng Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges and the Yamuna on “Mauni Amavasya” in Prayagraj, India, Friday, February 9, 2024. “Mauni Amavasya” is a new moon day, considered auspicious for bathing here during the ongoing annual month long Hindu religious fair “Magh Mela”. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A dancer performs a fire breathing act during a procession to mark the 669th anniversary of the birth of Hindu Guru Bawa Lal Dayal in Amritsar on February 9, 2024. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





A dancer performs a fire breathing act during a procession to mark the 669th anniversary of the birth of Hindu Guru Bawa Lal Dayal in Amritsar on February 9,2024. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





A man looks on as members of the Chinese community take part in a traditional dragon dance in Kolkata on February 10, 2024, on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Dragon. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





A woman along with a child pose for a picture in front of life-size models of an elephant made from lantana camara, an invasive weed species from the Nilgiris range, on display to create wildlife conservation awareness at the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru on February 10, 2024. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/AFP Photo)





Exile Tibetan Buddhist monks blow ceremonial conch shells during an early morning prayer session to mark the first day of the Lunar New Year at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamshala, India, Saturday, February 10, 2024. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





Children dressed in costumes prepare to perform dragon dance, as they take part in celebrations to mark the Lunar New Year, in Kolkata, India, on February 10, 2024. (Photo by Sahiba Chawdhary/Reuters)





Idols of Goddess Saraswati are displayed for sale ahead of the “Basant Panchami” festival at Kumartully district in Kolkata, Eastern India, 12 February 2024. Basant Panchami is a Hindu festival celebrating Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge, music, and art. It is marked every year on the fifth day (Panchami) of the Indian month Magh (January-February), the first day of spring. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA/EFE)





A vendor sits on a roadside stall with clay idols of Hindu goddess of knowledge, Saraswati, as she awaits customers on the eve of its worship on the auspicious day of Vasant Panchami, in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, February 13, 2024. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





Rapid Action Force personnel guard a major highway at Singhu near New Delhi to stop thousands of protesting farmers from entering the capital, India, Tuesday, February 13, 2024. Farmers, who began their march from northern Haryana and Punjab states, are asking for a guaranteed minimum support price for all farm produce. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Rapid Action Force personnel guard a major highway at Singhu near New Delhi to stop thousands of protesting farmers from entering the capital, India, Tuesday, February 13, 2024. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





An activist of a right-wing Hindu group lights an earthen lamp as they pay tribute to Indian soldiers killed in the 2019 car bombing at Pulwama in Indian-controlled Kashmir as they mark the anniversary of the attack in Jammu, India, Wednesday, February 14, 2024. The Feb. 14, 2019 attack killed 40 Indian soldiers and escalated tensions between India and Pakistan. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Police personnel stand guard next to a barrier and vehicles blocking a road to prevent farmers protesting to demand minimum crop prices from marching towards India's capital at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in Ghazipur on February 14, 2024. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)





Protesting farmers face armed police personnel near Shambhu border that divides northern Punjab and Haryana states, almost 200 km (125 miles) from New Delhi, India, Wednesday, February 14, 2024. Protesting Indian farmers Wednesday clashed with police for a second consecutive day as tens of thousands of them tried to march to the capital New Delhi to demand guaranteed crop prices for their produce. (Photo by Rajesh Sachar/AP Photo)





Farmers confront the police as they march towards New Delhi to press for better crop prices promised to them in 2021, at Shambhu, a border crossing between Punjab and Haryana states, India, on February 14, 2024. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





Protesting farmers clash with Indian Police on the second day of their protest, as it tries to prevent them from moving towards Delhi, at Shambhu Haryana-Punjab border point, 250 kilometers from Delhi, India, 14 February 2024. The farmers from several farmer associations mainly from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab are headed in a march to Delhi from the Ambala-Shambhu, Khanauri-Jind border points, as part of a protest demanding a law guaranteeing minimum support price (MSP) for their produce. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)





A couple dressed in traditional Bengali attire share a moment outside the Victoria Memorial monument on the occasions of the Hindu festival of Basant Panchami and Valentine's Day, in Kolkata, India, on February 14, 2024. (Photo by Sahiba Chawdhary/Reuters)





A priest (L) throws coloured powder over Hindu devotees during “Basant Panchami” festival celebrations, which mark the preparations for the arrival of spring, inside the Sri Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan on February 14, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo)





Fire brigade personnel look on after dousing a late Thursday fire at a paint factory in the Alipur area in northern New Delhi, India, Friday, February 16, 2024. Charred bodies of 11 unidentified victims were recovered from the rubble. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear. (Photo by AP Photo)





Kashmiri Muslims raise their hands for prayers outside the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, February 16, 2024, as the head priest, unseen, displays a holy relic believed to be a hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammad, following the Islamic festival of Shab-e-Meraj that took place at the shrine last Thursday. Shab-e-Meraj, the anniversary of Prophet Mohammad's ascent to heaven, was marked on February 8. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)