Two folk artists chat as they wait to participate in a procession marking 'Atham', the first day of ten-days long Onam festival in Kochi, Kerala state, India, Sunday, August 20, 2023. (Photo by R.S. Iyer/AP Photo)





Arun Haryani, an enthusiast with his body painted in tri-colours reacts as he holds up a model of LVM3 M4 which was used in launching of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the eve of its moon landing, in Ahmedabad, India on August 22, 2023. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Journalists film the live telecast of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 landing on the moon at ISRO's Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network facility in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, August 23, 2023. India lands a spacecraft near the moon's south pole, becoming the fourth country to touch down on the lunar surface. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





Schoolchildren cheer as they watch the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3, or “moon craft” in Sanskrit, at the Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, August 23, 2023. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





A girl stands with the Indian national flag as she watches a live telecast of the landing og Chandrayaan-3, or “moon craft” in Sanskrit, in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, August 23, 2023. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





Schoolchildren celebrate the successful landing of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the moon, in a school in Guwahati, India, Wednesday, August 23, 2023. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





People celebrate as they watch a live telecast of the landing og Chandrayaan-3, or “moon craft” in Sanskrit, in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, August 23, 2023. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





Girls cheer after Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft's landing on the moon, at an auditorium of Gujarat Science City in Ahmedabad, India on August 23, 2023. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





People watch a live stream of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft's landing on the moon, inside an auditorium of Gujarat Science City in Ahmedabad, India on August 23, 2023. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Indian Muslim students decorate a flower carpet or 'Pookalam' during a flower carpet competition as part of the Onam festival celebrations in Chennai, India, 24 August 2023. The Onam festival is a 10-day long harvest festival and is celebrated mostly in India's southern state of Kerala. Malayalam people in India and across the world put decorated flower beds in front of their houses to welcome King Mahabali, a past ruler of Kerala in southern India. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/EPA)





Several buildings collapse after massive landslides following heavy rainfall at Kullu's Anni town, in India's Himachal Pradesh state on August 24, 2023. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Students perform a traditional dance during the Onam festival celebrations in Chennai on August 25, 2023. (Photo by R. Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





Nuns and children wait for the start of a mass prayer celebrating the 113th birth anniversary of Mother Teresa at the Mother House in Kolkata, India, 26 August 2023. It is Mother Teresa's first birthday celebration in Kolkata after her canonization by Pope Francis in 2016. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA)





Indian women wearing sarees participate in “Saree Run” in Bangalore, India, 27 August 2023. Hundreds of women took part in a saree run and walk to help women embrace fitness in any outfit they are comfortable in to promote both tradition and fitness among women. (Photo by Jagadeesh N.V./EPA/EFE)





People take shelter under a tree holding umbrellas during monsoon rains in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, August 29, 2023. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





A Kashmiri fisherman casts his net into the waters of the Dal Lake on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, August 29, 2023. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A man rides an electric scooter through a street in Bengaluru, India, Monday, August 28, 2023. India is one of the fastest growing electric vehicle markets in the world. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





Malayali community members prepare a flower carpet or “Pookalam” as they celebrate the Onam festival, at Sree Ayyappan Guruvayurappan temple, in Chennai, India, 29 August 2023. The Onam festival is a 10-day long harvest festival and is celebrated mostly in India's southern state of Kerala. Malayalam people in India and across the world put decorated flower beds in front of their houses to welcome King Mahabali, a past ruler of Kerala in southern India. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/EPA)





Young boys ferry cattle on a boat in a flood affected village in Marigaon district on August 29, 2023. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)





Members of the fishing community make their way through a beach filled with plastic waste to offer coconuts to the ocean to celebrate Narli Pournima, or coconut festival, in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, August 30, 2023. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)