An Indian girl arranges earthen lamps to perform rituals during the inaugural ceremony of a five-day long Namami Brahmaputra festival in Gauhati, India, Friday, March 31, 2017. This is the first year of the festival. (Photo by Anupam Nath)a/AP Photo)





A man casts his fishing net in the waters of the Tawi river on a hot day in Jammu, March 31, 2017. (Photo by Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)





Street sellers sit between railway tracks waiting for customers to arrive on passing trains in Kolkata, India on March 24, 2017. (Photo by Rupak de Chowdhuri/Reuters)





In this Tuesday, March 28, 2017 photo, seats are seen empty before the final movie screening at Regal Theater in New Delhi, India. From Bollywood superstars to political heavyweights, the Regal theater had hosted some of India’s biggest names over more than eight decades. But with nostalgic theater-goers singing their way to the exits after a final showing of a Bollywood classic, the iconic New Delhi theater has closed its doors to make way for a multiplex. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





People sleep outside a market in Kolkata, India, March 27, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A vendor sorts chickens according to their sizes at a wholesale chicken market in Kolkata, India, March 27, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Fishermen paddle their boats as they carry their family members in the waters of Vembanad Lake in Kochi, India, March 27, 2017. (Photo by Sivaram V/Reuters)





Women watch the funeral of Rayees Ahmad Wani, a suspected militant who according to local media was killed in Padgampora in an encounter with the Indian security forces on Sunday, in Bellow village in south Kashmir, March 27, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





Kashmiri villagers attend the funeral of a local suspected rebel commander Tauseef Ahmed Wagay at Yaripora, about 60 Kilometres south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. Thousands attended the funeral of Wagay in Indian controlled Kashmir Wednesday, a day after he was killed in a gunbattle with government forces in Kashmir. Three civilians were also killed and dozens injured in anti-India protests that erupted Tuesday following the gunbattle. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





People react as they sit in a window of a mosque during the funeral of Tauseef Ahmad Wagay, a suspected militant, who according to local media was killed in a gun battle with Indian army on Tuesday in Chadoora, in Yaripora, in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, March 29, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A man uses dumbbells during a practice session at a traditional wrestling training centre called “Akhaara” in Jammu March 31, 2017. (Photo by Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)





A woman prays as she touches the wall of a temple during Navratri festival in Kolkata, India March 31, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





An Indian girl wearing a traditional clothe takes part in the procession to celebrate the Gudi Padwa, Maharashtrian's New Year in Mumbai, India, 28 March 2017. Gudi Padwa is the Hindu festival that falls on the first day of Chaitra month and marks the beginning of the Lunar Calendar, which dictates the dates for all Hindu festivals, also known as Panchang. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA)





Farmers from Tamil Nadu stage a protest at Jantar Mantar by holding living mice in their mouths to demonstrate that they will have to feed on them if the government fails to declare drought relief packages and waiver loans for the farmers from the state on March 27, 2017 in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Saumya Khandelwal/Hindustan Times)





A waiter carries chicken kabab to serve at Tundey Kababi, a 105-year-old kabab institution in Lucknow that has had to pull its top-selling spiced buffalo meat fare item from the menu because of the shortage of meat, in Lucknow, India , Friday, March 31, 2017. After the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in Uttar Pradesh this month on the back of a resounding electoral victory and named a Hindu priest-cum-politician as the state's chief minister, the government began cracking down on illegal slaughterhouses and meat shops. “The majority of the slaughterhouses and meat shops are running without licenses and government approval. I know in the name of buffalo, cows are being slaughtered in many abattoirs. This should end”, the new chief minister Yogi Adityanath said. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Eleven-month-old Sakeena sleeps in a hammock on the promenade next to a lake in Mumbai, March 21, 2017. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





A Hindu woman reads a religious scripture as she prays inside a temple during Navratri festival in Jammu March 29, 2017. (Photo by Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)





A muslim meat shop owner looks on outside his closed shop in Gurugram, Haryana, March 29, 2017. (Photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)





Doctors wear crash helmets outside the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) during a protest to highlight the lack of security offered to doctors, in New Delhi, March 23, 2017. (Photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)





A muslim meat shop owner sits outside his closed shop in Gurugram, Haryana, March 29, 2017. (Photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)





A farmer from Tamil Nadu displays skulls, who he claims are the remains of Tamil farmers who have committed suicide, during a protest demanding a drought-relief package from the federal government, in New Delhi, March 22, 2017. (Photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)





Boys jump from a railway bridge in a creek to cool off in Mumbai, March 31, 2017. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)





People sit on railway tracks in Kolkata, India, March 24, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Men squash sugarcane in a hand run wooden grinder under the shadow of a tree on a hot day on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, March 31, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





People run amid smoke from a tear gas shell fired by the Indian police during a protest by teachers demanding the regularization of their contractual jobs and hike in salaries, protesters said, in Srinagar, March 23, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A girl fills metal pitchers with drinking water from a tubewell outside a temple in Ahmedabad, March 30, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Eunuchs attend a prayer inside a temple as part of a fourteen day long convention honouring eunuchs from across the country, in Gandhinagar March 22, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A tricycle puller brushes his teeth inside a garage in Kolkata, March 28, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





People perform a ritual as part of celebrations to mark the Gudi Padwa festival, the beginning of the Maharashtrian New Year, in Ahmedabad, India. March 28, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





People rest beside a poster of Hindu Lord Shiva on a roadside in Kolkata, March 28, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A man carries schoolchildren on his bicycle on a road in Srinagar, March 28, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A man walks inside a closed mutton market in Lucknow, March 28, 2017. (Photo by Pawan Kumar/Reuters)





An Indian policeman throws stone towrads Kashmiri demonstrators during an anti-India protest in Srinagar March 31, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A woman dressed in traditional costume attends celebrations to mark the Gudi Padwa festival, the beginning of the New Year for Maharashtrians, in Mumbai, March 28, 2017. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)