Aradhana, center, wife of Deepak chand, a school teacher who was killed in Kashmir, mourns before the cremation in Jammu, India, Friday, October 8, 2021. Assailants fatally shot two schoolteachers in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday in a sudden rise in targeted killings of civilians in the disputed region, police said. Authorities blamed militants fighting against Indian rule for the attack in the outskirts of Srinagar, the region’s main city. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Indian Air Force (IAF) soldiers march during the 89th Air Force Day parade at Hindon Air Force station in Ghaziabad on October 8, 2021. (Photo by Prakash Singh/AFP Photo)





Women offer annual congregational prayers called “Khoja Digar” on the 3rd of Rabi-ul-Awwal, the third month of the Islamic calendar, outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Khawaja Naqashband on his death anniversary, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Srinagar, October 10, 2021. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





People offer annual congregational prayers called “Khoja Digar” on the 3rd of Rabi-ul-Awwal, the third month of the Islamic calendar, outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Khawaja Naqashband on his death anniversary, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Srinagar, October 10, 2021. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





Beachgoers walk along the shores of the Bay of Bengal as a flock of pigeons fly in the morning, at Marina beach in Chennai, India, 09 October 2021. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/EPA/EFE)





A Khashi tribal man catches fish in a pond at Moronga village, along the Assam-Meghalaya state border, India, Friday, October 8, 2021. More than 60 percent of India's 1.3 billion citizens engage in agriculture. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





An artisan works on the hair of the face of a demon while giving finishing touches to clay images of Hindu goddess Durga in a studio ahead of Durga Puja festival in Gauhati, India, Saturday, October 9, 2021. After worship the idols will be immersed in water bodies at the end of the festival. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





People wait with their pets for them to be blessed by a priest during an animal blessing ceremony at the St. John the Evangelist Church in Mumbai on October 10, 2021. (Photo by Sujit Jaiswal/AFP Photo)





An artisan paints clay image of Hindu goddess Durga at a roadside studio in Kolkata, India, Saturday, October 9, 2021. The idols will be worshipped during the upcoming Durga Puja festival that starts on Oct. 11 and ends with the immersion of idols on Oct. 15. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





People visit a makeshift pandal made with wood, metal and bamboo under a theme “Unrestricted” by artist Susanta Paul during Durga Puja festival celebrations in Kolkata, India, 11 October 2021. Bengalis all over the world will be marking the Durga Puja festival, representing the victory of good over evil and the celebration of female power, from 11 to 15 October 2021. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA/EFE)





An Indian paramilitary soldier checks the bag of a Kashmiri man at a busy market in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, October 11, 2021. The government forces have beefed up security in the region’s main city following a string of targeted killings last week. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





A man walks past baskets at a wholesale market that was shut during a Maharashtra statewide strike, after people were killed in clashes when a car linked to a federal minister ran over farmers protesting against controversial farm laws in Uttar Pradesh earlier this month, in Navi Mumbai, India October 11, 2021. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Artisans paint effigies of the demon King Ravana ahead of “Dussehra” festival celebrations in New Delhi on October 12, 2021. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)





Workers unload coal from a supply truck at a yard on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India October 12, 2021. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A girl looks on next to others dressed as Hindu Goddess Durga at a temporary worship place during the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata on October 13, 2021. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





Labourers work next to electricity pylons in Mumbai, India, October 13, 2021. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A priest raises his sword to sacrifice a buffalo at a temple of Hindu goddess Durga at Rani village on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Wednesday, October 13, 2021. Participants in the five-day Durga Puja festival believe the animal sacrifice brings prosperity and good health. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A woman reacts as she receives a shot of a vaccine against COVID-19 during a vaccination drive for college students, in Bangalore, India, 13 October 2021. India registered 15,283 new coronavirus and 226 deaths in the last 24 hours. (Photo by Jagadeesh N.V./EPA/EFE)





An Indian girl Isha Bannerje (C) dresses up as Goddess Durga during Kumari Puja ritual as a part of the Durga Puja Hindu festival, at Nandi Bari far North of Kolkata, Eastern India, 14 October 2021. During the Kumari Puja, devotees worship a girl aged between six and twelve, symbolizing the Kanya Kumari (virgin) form of the Goddess Durga Devi. Hindu devotees believe that the Kanya is a living embodiment of the goddess Durga. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA/EFE)





A police officer offers a prayer to his weapon as part of a ritual at their headquarters on the occasion of Dussehra, or Vijaya Dashami, festival in Ahmedabad, India, October 15, 2021. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)