In this October 19, 2018, photo, Kashmiri protesters take cover behind a tin sheet as they clash with Indian security forces in Srinagar, India. Government forces fired tear gas and pellets on Kashmiris who gathered after Friday afternoon prayers on a protest call given by separatists against the killing two rebels and a civilian during a gunbattle in Srinagar on Wednesday. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A man selling traditional earthen lamps ahead of Diwali festival, rides a bullock cart through an under construction road on a foggy day in Greater Noida, near New Delhi, India, Monday, November 5, 2018. With air quality reduced to “very severe” in the Indian capital region, authorities are bracing for a major Hindu festival featuring massive fireworks that threatens to cloak New Delhi with more toxic smog and dust. (Photo by R.S. Iyer/AP Photo)





A man wears a face mask as he exercises at a park on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, October 30, 2018. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





Indian policemen gather next to the Statue of Unity at Kevadiya colony in Gujarat state, India, Wednesday, October 31, 2018. The 182-meters (597 feet) bronze statue of Sardar Vallabbhai Patel, a key independence leader and the country's first home minister after British colonialists left in 1947, was inaugurated Wednesday by Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





Traditional Indian folkdancers from the state of Madhya Pradesh look on at the inauguration ceremony for the “Statue Of Unity”, the world' s tallest statue dedicated to Indian independence leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, overlooking the Sardar Sarovar Dam near Vadodara in India' s western Gujarat state on October 31, 2018. India on October 31 inaugurated the world' s biggest statue with pomp, fireworks and tight security amid an outcry among local groups over the cost of the 182 metre (600 feet) high reproduction of an Indian independence hero. (Photo by Sam Panthaky/AFP Photo)





General view of the “Statue of Unity” portraying Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of the founding fathers of India, during its inauguration in Kevadia, in Gujarat, India, October 31, 2018. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A mule stands next to color patterns painted on a school wall as the wheels of an old cart lie nearby in New Delhi, India, Sunday, October 28, 2018. The animal is used for transporting construction material and other goods. (Photo by R.S. Iyer/AP Photo)





Devotees wait to worship at the Sabarimala temple, one of the world's largest Hindu pilgrimage sites, Kerala state, India, Monday, November 5, 2018. The historic Sabarimala temple which had barred women age 10 to 50 from entering the temple, opened to Hindu pilgrims for a day Monday evening. The last time it was opened, conservative protesters blocked women of menstruating age from going to the temple, defying a recent ruling from India's top court to let them enter. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





A worker shovels coal in a supply truck at a yard on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, October 25, 2018. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





In this October 19, 2018, photo, members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a hard-line Hindu group that created the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party as its political arm, attend Vijay Dashmi festival celebrations in Allahabad, India. Vijayadashami, also known as Dussehra, commemorates the victory of the Hindu god Rama over demon god Ravana. The festivity is marked with the burning of effigies of Ravana, signifying the victory of good over evil. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Indian Muslim women pray inside Jama Mosque in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, October 31, 2018. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A farmer sorts harvested paddy crops at a field on the outskirts of Kochi, India, October 24, 2018. (Photo by Sivaram V/Reuters)





A man bathes in the polluted waters of the Yamuna river in New Delhi, India, October 25, 2018. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





Girls take selfies in front of a board at the India Mobile Congress 2018 in New Delhi, October 26, 2018. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





A man pours water to douse a fire that broke out in a slum in Mumbai, India, October 30, 2018. (Photo by Prashant Waydande/Reuters)





People burn incense sticks and light candles on the graves of their relatives at a cemetery during the observance of All Souls Day, in Kolkata, India, November 2, 2018. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





An artisan carries clay-face sculptures of the Hindu goddess Kali in an alley ahead of the Kali Puja festival in Kolkata, India October 29, 2018. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Anchovies are pictured in icy waters at a fish market in Mumbai, India, October 29, 2018. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Wrestlers fight during an amateur wrestling match inside a makeshift ring installed on a road organised by local residents as part of Diwali, the festival of lights, celebrations in Kolkata, India, November 5, 2018. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Wrestlers fight during an amateur wrestling match inside a makeshift ring installed on a road organised by local residents as part of Diwali, the festival of lights, celebrations in Kolkata, India, November 5, 2018. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Customers shop for lanterns ahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali in Mumbai, November 4, 2018. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





Vendors sell marigold garlands which are used to decorate temples and homes on the eve of Diwali, the festival of lights, in Kolkata, November 6, 2018. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A woman buys lamps in a market on the eve of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in New Delhi, November 6, 2018. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





An under-construction high-rise residential building is seen behind as farm workers thrash freshly harvested paddy crop to separate the grains in Greater Noida, India, Monday, October 29, 2018. More than 70 percent of India's 1.25 billion citizens engage in agriculture. (Photo by R.S. Iyer/AP Photo)





An Indian Khasi tribal woman works in a pineapple field in Moronga village along the Assam-Meghalaya state border in India, Sunday, November 4, 2018. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





In this October 19, 2018, photo, an Indian Hindu devotee takes a ritualistic bath after immersing an idol of Hindu goddess Durga in the River Yamuna during Durga Puja festival in New Delhi, India. The immersion of idols marks the end of the festival that commemorates the slaying of a demon king by lion-riding, 10-armed goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A girl stands outside her house after a health worker fumigates a residential area to prevent the spread of mosquito-borne diseases in Ahmedabad, India, October 26, 2018. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A woman belonging to a shepherd community is seen adorned with a nose ornament as she sits in a field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, October 29, 2018. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Indian ragpickers collect usable material as smoke rises from a garbage dump at the Bhalswa landfill site in New Delhi, on October 29, 2018. Pollutants from vehicles, burning garbage dumps, building sites and farmers burning crops in regions outside the Indian capital spike in levels during winter in Delhi when air quality often eclipses the World Health Organization's safe levels. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)





An Indian Nihang, a religious Sikh warrior, holds an eagle during a procession by the Golden Temple in Amritsar on October 25, 2018. The event is taking place on the eve of birth anniversary of the fourth Sikh Guru Ramdas. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





Indian children dressed up as the Hindu deities Rama and Sita take a selfie photograph at an event to celebrate the Diwali festival in Ajmer in western Rajasthan state on November 6, 2018. (Photo by Shaukat Ahmed/AFP Photo)