An Indian man walks with an umbrella during a rain in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, August 1, 2019. India receives its monsoon rains from June to September. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Women watch submerged temples and houses from a bridge covered with garbage by the waters of overflowing river Godavari after heavy rainfall in Nashik, India, August 5, 2019. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Schoolchildren wade through a flooded street after heavy rains in New Delhi, India, August 6, 2019. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





In this photo taken on June 21, 2019, Indian children taking part in the Khelo Rugby project look on as they sit inside their home in a slum area of the Kidderpore neighbourhood in Kolkata. In the 1870s when the Calcutta Rugby Football Club started charging for drinks, interest among British colonials waned and it was disbanded, leaving 270 silver rupees in the kitty, so the story goes. (Photo by Amit Datta/AFP Photo)





A public bus makes its way on a flooded road after heavy monsoon rains in Mumbai, India on August 4, 2019. (Photo by Indranil Mukherjee/AFP Photo)





A kid tests his new bat, still wrapped in plastic, as he prepares to go out to play cricket, in Amritsar, India, 04 August 2019. Cricket is the most popular sport, played and watched, in India. (Photo by Raminder Pal Singh/EPA/EFE)





A Sikh devotee demonstrates his “Gatka” traditional martial art skills during the “Nagar Kirtan” procession to mark the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on August 2, 2019. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





An Indian wrestler takes part in a bout of traditional wrestling at the Loknath Vyayamsala wrestling club to mark the Nag Panchami festival, in Allahabad on August 5, 2019. The Hindu festival of Nag Panchami is observed during the monsoon season with prayers, tributes to snakes and in some northern cities devotees celebrate with traditional wrestling. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





People hold their mobile phone torches as they take part in a protest demanding investigation in a highway collision in which a woman who is fighting a rape case against a legislator of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was critically injured, in New Delhi, India, July 29, 2019. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





A man displays a snake to attract alms from Hindu devotees who arrive to worship at a temple during the annual “Nag Panchami” festival, in Prayagraj, India, Monday, August 5, 2019. The festival is dedicated to the worship of snakes. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A Muslim man sits on a chair on a roadside pavement in New Delhi, August 1, 2019. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





People perform prayers during a “Tharpanam”, a ritual to honour the souls of their deceased ancestors, on a beach in Chennai, July 31, 2019. (Photo by P. Ravikumar/Reuters)





India's Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel carry their shoes as they wade through a water-logged street after heavy rain in Srinagar August 1, 2019. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A temple is seen submerged in the waters of overflowing river Godavari after heavy rainfall in Nashik, India, August 4, 2019. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A policeman stands on a bridge as houses are seen submerged in the waters of overflowing river Godavari after heavy rainfall in Nashik, India, August 4, 2019. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





An Indian army soldier patrols on a bridge during restrictions in Jammu, August 5, 2019. (Photo by Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)





Houses and temples are seen submerged in the waters of overflowing river Godavari after heavy rainfall in Nashik, India, August 5, 2019. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





In this Saturday, July 27, 2019, photo, Hindu pilgrims walk uphill as they participate in the annual amarnath pilgrimage near Chandanwa, Indian controlled Kashmir. India is pitching a Hindu pilgrimage to a snowy cave shrine in disputed, Muslim-majority Kashmir as evidence of peace in a state marred by decades of armed conflict amid popular resistance to Indian rule. The annual yatra, or spiritual journey, to the Amarnath shrine, the hallowed mountain cave where devotees revere an icy stalagmite as an image of Lord Shiva, presents an opportunity for the state of Jammu and Kashmir to show something beyond the frequent skirmishes between armed separatists and Indian soldiers that have cost tens of thousands of lives. (Photo by Emily Schmall/AP Photo)





Tourists in Shikaras, a traditional gondola, cross the Dal Lake as they prepare to leave Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, August 3, 2019. A government order in Indian-administered Kashmir on Friday asked tourists and Hindu pilgrims visiting a Himalayan cave shrine “to curtail their stay” in the disputed territory, citing security concerns and intensifying tensions following India's announcement it was sending more troops to the region. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A woman carries her child as she walks past Indian security personnel as it rains during curfew like restrictions in Jammu, India, Monday, August 5, 2019. An indefinite security lockdown was in place in the Indian-controlled portion of divided Kashmir on Monday, stranding millions in their homes as authorities also suspended some internet services and deployed thousands of fresh troops around the increasingly tense region. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





A man trips in rushing flood waters as he tries to hold onto a rope to help people to cross the street following heavy monsoon rains outside the Moinuddin Chishti sufi shrine in Ajmer in the western Indian state of Rajasthan on August 1, 2019. (Photo by Shaukat Ahmed/AFP Photo)