Police personnel march in front of activists of pro-farmer organisations during a protest rally supporting the ongoing farmers' protest against the central government's recent agricultural reforms, in Bangalore on March 22, 2021. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran/AFP Photo)





A girl reacts as a health worker takes her nasal swab sample for Covid-19 coronavirus Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) as mandated by the civic authorities in Mumbai on March 22, 2021. (Photo by Indranil Mukherjee/AFP Photo)





A shepherd keeps a watch as his flock graze in a field of Chrysanthemum flowers on the outskirts of Bangalore on March 23, 2021. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran/AFP Photo)





Hindu devotees take part in a traditional gathering during the Lathmar Holi celebrations, the spring festival of colours at a temple in Barsana village of India's Uttar Pradesh state on March 23, 2021. (Photo by Xavier Galiana/AFP Photo)





Hindu devotees take part in a traditional gathering during the Lathmar Holi celebrations, the spring festival of colours at a temple in Barsana village of India's Uttar Pradesh state on March 23, 2021. (Photo by Xavier Galiana/AFP Photo)





Hindu women beat a man with sticks as they traditionally celebrate the Lathmar Holi, the spring festival of colours near a temple in Barsana village of India's Uttar Pradesh state on March 23, 2021. (Photo by Xavier Galiana/AFP Photo)





Hindu devotees take part in a traditional gathering during the Lathmar Holi celebrations, the spring festival of colours at a temple in Barsana village of India's Uttar Pradesh state on March 23, 2021. (Photo by Xavier Galiana/AFP Photo)





Devotees dressed as Hindu gods prepare to participate in a religious procession from a crematorium along the banks of the Ganges river in Varanasi on March 24, 2021. (Photo by Anand Singh/AFP Photo)





An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard near the bridge on Tiau river along the India-Myanmar border in Mizoram, India, Saturday, March 20, 2021. Several Myanmar police officers who fled to India after defying army orders to shoot opponents of last month’s coup are urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to not repatriate them and provide them political asylum on humanitarian grounds. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





An unidentified woman used a drain hole to cross into Myanmar from the Champhai village in Mizoram, India, Saturday, March 20, 2021. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Health worker Kavita Sherawat, 30, shows a photograph of her son Parakhshit before proceeding to take samples to test for COVID-19, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 18, 2021. Despite dutifully wearing masks and always washing her hands, Sherawat got infected, as did her husband, parents and in-laws. While doctors and nurses were cheered as heroes during the lockdown, people avoided her, fearing infection. She tested thousands of sick and gasping people as they arrived at hospitals, not knowing if the gear she wore was adequately protecting her. “That fear changes you as a person. You start valuing your life more”, she said. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Neelesh Deepak, a theatre artist, watches a rehearsal of an upcoming show he is managing at a theatre in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. First, his food supplies ran scarce. Then he couldn’t pay his apartment’s rent. Out of money, he eventually returned to his village to stay with his parents, biding time to cope with never seen before isolation. When Deepak returned back to the Indian capital in October, things had changed. Most theatres had closed. Upcoming shows were suspended indefinitely and thousands of his peers had no jobs. His struggle continued for months until he eventually joined a nonprofit group as a researcher. His income plummeted from between $500 to $600 a month to a little more than $150. He struggles just to buy food. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Ganesh Chaurasia, 42, a roadside juice vendor peels an orange as he waits for customers in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Chaurasia says the lockdown plummeted his income and pushed his family, which is still struggling to make their ends meet, into economic despair. Street vendors like Chaurasia represent 4% of the urban workforce across India. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Indian soldier stand guard at the site of an attack on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, March 25, 2021. Rebels fighting against Indian rule in disputed Kashmir Thursday attacked a paramilitary patrol, killing two soldiers and injuring two others, an official said. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





India's security force personnel stand guard at the site of an attack on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers by suspected militants on the outskirts of Srinagar on March 25, 2021. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A man pushes his bicycle past Communist Party of India (Marxist) flags displayed as part of election campaign in Kochi, Kerala state, India, Thursday, March 25, 2021. The southern state goes to polls on April 6 to elect members to its state legislature. (Photo by R.S. Iyer/AP Photo)





A resident fills a container with drinking water supplied by a government water tanker at a slum in Hyderabad on March 22, 2021. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





Artists perform during the Fag Utsav celebration ahead the Holi Festival, at historical Govind Dev Ji Temple in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India on Thursday, March 25, 2021. (Photo by Vishal Bhatnagar/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





This aerial picture taken on March 25, 2021 shows a congested roundabout in New Delhi, as India recorded more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time since November while a new wave of infections takes hold a year after one of the world's tightest Covid-19 lockdowns was imposed. (Photo by Prakash Singh/AFP Photo)





A woman dressed in the style of a Hindu goddess keeps her face partially covered for a ritual during Maha Shivaratri celebrations on March 12, 2021 in Kaveripattinam, India. Maha Shivaratri is a major Hindu festival celebrated annually in honour of the god, Shiva. The festival is observed with chanting prayers, fasting, and meditating to overcome “darkness and ignorance” in life. (Photo by Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images)