India's prime minister, Narendra Modi leaves after attending the funeral rites of his mother in Gandhinagar on December 30, 2022. (Photo by Sam Panthaky/AFP Photo)





A homeless woman sits by the entrance to the a dilapidated shelter for homeless people in New Delhi, December 30, 2022. The piercing chill is an ordeal for the city’s homeless, with New Delhi Sunday recording the minimum temperature of 5.5 degrees Celsius (41.9 Fahrenheit). New Delhi's 195 homeless shelters can accommodate only about 19,000 people, leaving tens of thousands struggling to keep warm. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A child reacts to smoke from a bonfire lit by village elders to keep themselves warm on a wintry morning on the outskirts of Jabalpur on December 30, 2022. (Photo by Uma Shankar Mishra/AFP Photo)





People walk on Kartavya Path, earlier known as Rajpath, on New Year's eve in New Delhi, India on December 31, 2022. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





Devotees crowd to visit the Golden Temple on the occasion of New Year's Day in Amritsar on January 1, 2023. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





People take a ride on a boat to feed seagulls at the bank of Yamuna river in early hours of Sunday on the first day of New Year, New Delhi, India on January 01, 2023. (Photo by Pankaj Nangia/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Silhouettes of Indian tourists are seen as they enjoying camel safari during the year's last sunset in Desert of Pushkar, Rajasthan, India on December 31, 2022. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Indian Christians release balloons to celebrate the New Year after offering prayers at a Church in Ahmedabad, India, Sunday, January 1, 2023. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





Activists of right wing Hindu groups Dogra Front and Shiv Sena, reacting to the militant attack in the southern Rajouri district of Indian-controlled Kashmir burn Pakistan flag during a protest in Jammu, India, Monday, January 2, 2023. Assailants sprayed bullets toward a row of civilian homes Sunday night, leaving at least four civilians dead and five others injured, police said Monday. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





A boy bathes at a roadside municipal tap on a cold winter morning in the old quarters of Delhi, India on January 2, 2023. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A boatman uses an oar to break the ice layer along the interiors of Dal Lake on a cold winter morning in Srinagar on January 2, 2023. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





A goat wearing a jacket is seen on a farm on a cold winter morning in New Delhi, India on January 3, 2023. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





A young Sikh boy shouts religious slogans during a procession ahead of the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh guru, in Jammu, India, Tuesday, January 3, 2023. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Students with visual disabilities read a book in braille at the Devnar School for the Blind in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, January 3, 2023. World Braille Day will be observed on Jan. 4, marking the birth anniversary of Louis Braille, the French inventor who devised a system used by the blind for reading and writing. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Yunus Belim, 48, a kite maker, checks the quality of a kite before packing it inside a workshop for the upcoming eight-day-long International Kite Festival in Ahmedabad, India on January 3, 2023. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A student with visual disability writes in braille at a government-run school in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, January 3, 2023. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Chinar trees are reflected on the frozen Dal Lake on a cold morning in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, January 4 , 2022. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





Farmers inspect sunflowers in a field on the outskirts of Bengaluru on January 3, 2023. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran/AFP Photo)





A Sadhu (R) or Hindu holyman makes preparations inside his camp at the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges and Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati, ahead of the one month long annual traditional Hindu festival “Magh Mela” in Prayagraj on January 4, 2023. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





A woman sits next to a bonfire near a nursery on a cold winter morning in New Delhi, India on January 5, 2023. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)