A man tries to protect himself from rain while standing along a street in New Delhi on July 16, 2022. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)





People walk past damaged school buses that were set on fire by a mob in the school campus after a female student's death in Kallakurichi district in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India on July 17, 2022. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A dhobi, or a washerman hangs cloths for drying after washing them on the banks of the River Gomti in Lucknow, northern Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, July 17, 2022. Dhobis are traditional laundry workers who wash clothes by hand and dry them in the sun, an occupation which has been in existence for generations. This practice is still popular in many parts of India, despite of modern technology. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A man ties up a cage filled with pigeons, bought from a weekly market on his bicycle in Kolkata, India, Sunday, July 17, 2022. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





A gujjar nomadic member carry grass on her hand as she walks near mud houses in Doodhpathri, a tourist destination and hill station in district Budgam some 40 kilometers from Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 17 July 2022 (issued 18 July 2022). The nomads live in the dhoks (mud houses) during their half-yearly stay in Kashmir and they leave these dhoks in winter when they move to warmer areas in Jammu region. The nomadic Gujjar and Bakerwal communities annually in summer start their migration towards the upper reaches of Kashmir in search of greener pastures for feeding their cattle. They move along with their baggage on horses and flocks of goats and sheep with ferocious dogs. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA/EFE)





A Hindu devotee dressed as Potharaju, the brother of the Hindu goddess Mahakali, performs during the Bonalu festival procession at the Sri Ujjaini Mahakali Temple in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad on July 18, 2022. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





A woman carries lotus roots to be used as cattle feed on a boat as she steers through interior channels of the Dal Lake in Srinagar on July 18, 2022. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





Farmers shout slogans and burn an effigy of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Punjab state chief minister Bhagwant Mann during a protest against what they say are “anti-farmers” policies of the state and central governments, on the outskirts of Amritsar on July 19, 2022. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





A child looks at a phone as his mother roasts corn on the cob to sell by the roadside in Dharmsala, India, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





A devotee dances balancing decorated pots, filled with cooked rice as an offering for goddess Kali, during the Bonalu festival in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. Bonalu is a month-long Hindu folk festival of the Telangana region dedicated to Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





A tribal Khash boy catches fish in a paddy field at Moronga village, along the Assam-Meghalaya state border, India, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A tribal Khasi woman walks carrying tea leaves she plucked in a garden at Moronga village, along the Assam-Meghalaya state border, India, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A man walks along Rajpath during a monsoon rainfall in New Delhi on July 20, 2022. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)





Women cover their faces as a health worker fumigates a residential neighbourhood during a drive to prevent the spread of mosquito-borne diseases following recent rainfall and water logging, in Ahmedabad, India on July 20, 2022. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A worker places a sack of onions onto a weighing scale at a wholesale market in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Security personnel detain an Indian National Congress (INC) activists during a protest at Congress head office in Delhi, India, 21 July 2022. INC workers protested as Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoned Sonia Gandhi to appear at the ED office in relation to the alleged misappropriation of assets of a newspaper “The National Herald”. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Pnar, or Jaintia, tribals carry 'Rongs' or chariots and dance in muddy waters during Behdienkhlam festival celebrations in Tuber village, in the northeastern state of Meghalaya, India, Friday, July 22, 2022. Behdienkhlam is a traditional festival of the Pnars celebrated after sowing is done seeking a good harvest and to drive away plague and diseases. Young men symbolically drive away evil spirits by beating the roof of every house with bamboo poles. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





This aerial picture shows spectators carrying umbrellas gathered during the annual Behdienkhlam festival which is celebrated annually after the sowing period in Tuber village in India’s north-eastern state of Meghalaya on July 22, 2022. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)





Police officers detain members of Krantikari Yuva Sangathan (KYS), a student organization, as they arrive to submit a memorandum at the United Nation's India office to protest against the raid on an anti-government protest camp and to show solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka, amid the country's economic crisis, in New Delhi, India, July 22, 2022. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





A man rides a cycle in the rain in Hyderabad, India, Friday, July 22, 2022. The monsoon season in India lasts from June to September. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)