Indian army cadets celebrate after their graduation ceremony at the Officers Training Academy (OTA) in Gaya on December 9, 2017. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A Kashmiri shepherd leads a flock of sheep after a snowfall on the outskirts of Srinagar on December 13, 2017. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





A woman prays as she touches the carcass of an elephant, who according to forest officials was electrocuted early morning in a paddy field at Kuruabahi village, in Nagaon district in the northeastern state of Assam, December 12, 2017. (Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters)





Flowers are seen placed by people on a carcass of an elephant, who according to forest officials was electrocuted early morning in a paddy field at Kuruabahi village, in Nagaon district in the northeastern state of Assam, India, December 12, 2017. (Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters)





An excavator places the carcasses of two elephants, who according to forest officials were electrocuted early morning in a paddy field, for their burial at Kuruabahi village, in Nagaon district in the northeastern state of Assam, December 12, 2017. (Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters)





A worker carries iron rods inside a workshop at an iron and steel market in an industrial area, in New Delhi, India, December 12, 2017. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A man rows his boat in the waters of the Dal lake in Srinagar December 12, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A man warms himself by a fire along a road on a cold winter morning in New Delhi, India, December 13, 2017. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Hindu saints stand in a queue to casts their votes at a polling station during the last phase of Gujarat state assembly election on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, December 14, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Schoolchildren celebrate 57th birthday of chimpanzee Rita, who according to local media is the oldest living chimpanzee in the country, at a zoological park in New Delhi, India, December 14, 2017. (Photo by Saumya Khandelwal/Reuters)





A boy and a woman are wrapped in a shawl as they sit at a bus terminal on a cold winter morning in New Delhi, India, December 15, 2017. (Photo by Saumya Khandelwal/Reuters)





A vendor sells Christmas goodies on a street in Mumbai, December 14, 2017. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)





Participants dance during Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk, which promotes gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights, in Kolkata, December 10, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A man swims in the waters of the Arabian Sea amidst a flock of seagulls in Mumbai, December 12, 2017. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)





An Indian army soldier demonstrates his skills with his horse during the “Vijay Diwas”, a ceremony to celebrate the liberation of Bangladesh by the Indian Armed Forces on December 16 in 1971, in Kolkata, December 14, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





People perform their daily chores while looking into the camera on a cold winter morning in New Delhi, India, December 14, 2017. (Photo by Saumya Khandelwal/Reuters)





A man paddles his bicycle on a platform as a train moves through fog on a cold morning at a railway station in Chandigarh, India, December 13, 2017. (Photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters)





Men gather around a breakfast seller on a cold morning in the old quarters of Delhi, India, December 1, 2017. (Photo by Saumya Khandelwal/Reuters)





A boy feeds pigeons on a cold winter morning in Kolkata, India, November 29, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A man wraps himself in a blanket to keep himself warm as he sits outside closed shops on a cold winter morning in the old quarters of Delhi, India, December 14, 2017. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A boy waits for his turn to take a bath at roadside municipal taps on a cold winter morning in the old quarters of Delhi, India, December 14, 2017. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A labourer wearing a blanket sits on sacks stacked at a market on a cold morning in the old quarters of Delhi, India, November 27, 2017. (Photo by Saumya Khandelwal/Reuters)





Supporters of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrate the initial poll results outside the party office in Ahmedabad, India, December 18, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Indians returning after the day's work await bus transport standing on a pavement next to an advertisement hoarding of a clothing store in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state, India, Monday, December 18, 2017. Buses are an important means of public transport in India. (Photo by R.S. Iyer/AP Photo)





A statue of Diego Maradona is seen next to the venue where Maradona unveiled the same Monday in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, December 12, 2017. The statue is expected to be relocated to a different part of the city. The 1986 World Cup-winning captain for Argentina is on a three day visit to Kolkata. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





A Kashmiri village woman collects fodder for her cattle on a snow covered field on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, December 12, 2017. Heavy snowfall and rains have forced authorities in Indian controlled Kashmir to close the only all weather road link that connects the Kashmir valley to the rest of India. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A Kashmiri Muslim men ride a Shikara boat during a snowfall at Dal lake in Srinagar on December 13, 2017. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





A performer poses during celebrations after Rahul Gandhi, newly elected president of India's main opposition Congress party, took charge as the president during a ceremony outside the party's headquarters in New Delhi, India, December 16, 2017. (Photo by Altaf Hussain/Reuters)