An Indian girl helps her mother with morning chores before they start their street food business on a cold winter morning in New Delhi, India, Thursday, December 29, 2016. Just as it is known for its scorching summers Delhi is known for its chilly winters. (Photo by Tsering Topgyal/AP Photo)





An Indian from outstation carries his ailing child on his shoulder as they wait for transportation outside a hospital in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, December 28, 2016. Only 1.3 percent of India’s GDP was devoted to public health, as per the Economic Survey 2015-2016. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





A trader counts new 2,000-rupee notes at a wholesale vegetable market in Bangalore, India, Friday, December 30, 2016. India yanked most of its currency bills from circulation without warning, delivering a jolt to the country's high-performing economy and leaving countless citizens scrambling for cash. Still, as Friday's deadline for depositing old 500- and 1,000-rupee notes draws to a close, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has called the demonetization drive a great success in drawing out tax dodgers and eliminating graft. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





A photograph made available on 29 December 2016 shows an Indian man as he walks with an umbrella in rain in a tea garden in Munnar, India, 28 December 2016. Munnar, with its sprawling tea plantations, is a popular hill station resort town in southern India. (Photo by Sanjay Baid/EPA)





An Indian Sikh volunteer child arranges Chappatis at Langer, holy food kitchen on the occasion of the 350th birth anniversary of the Sikh Guru Sri Guru Gobind Singh, in Jammu the winter capital of Kashmir, India, 05 January 2017. Guru Gobind Singh was the tenth and last of the ten Gurus (masters) of the Sikhs. (Photo by Jaipal Singh/EPA)





Indian members of the Presidential Guards rehearse for the forthcoming Republic Day parade at Rajpath in New Delhi on January 3, 2017 India will celebrate its 68 th Republic Day on January 26 with a large military parade. (Photo by Chandan Khanna/AFP Photo)





A Kashmiri shepherd throws down a bundle of dried leaves for his cattle, on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, January 4, 2017. Srinagar experienced the first snowfall of the season Wednesday. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





A passenger train moves past a mustard field on the outskirts of Ajmer, India December 28, 2016. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/Reuters)





A woman carries a jerrycan filled with kerosene oil for cooking on the outskirts of Srinagar, December 28, 2016. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A boy looks on as he passes through an opening in a fence, laid on the boundary of a playground in a neighbourhood in Srinagar December 28, 2016. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A tea seller carries glasses of tea and water on his head at a street market with second-hand clothes in Mumbai, India December 29, 2016. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)





People warm themselves by a fire on a cold winter morning in Chandigarh, India, December 31, 2016. (Photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters)





A fisherman casts his net in the waters of a flood channel on the outskirts of Srinagar, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





Boys cross railway tracks on a foggy winter morning on the outskirts of Agartala, India, January 2, 2017. (Photo by Jayanta Dey/Reuters)





A worker polishes a steel utensil inside a utensil manufacturing unit in Ahmedabad, India, January 2, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Men practice stick fighting in a public park on a winter morning in Kolkata, India, January 3, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Homeless children covered in a blanket sleep on a sidewalk in Mumbai, India, January 3, 2017. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





A woman sweeps a street on a foggy winter morning in Agartala, India, January 4, 2017. (Photo by Jayanta Dey/Reuters)





A man smokes a water pipe as he sits outside his house during a snowfall on a cold winter morning in Srinagar January 4, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A man walks on a footbridge at Dal Lake during a snowfall on a cold winter morning in Srinagar January 4, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A man uses an umbrella as he walks under snow-covered trees during a snowfall on a cold winter morning in Pattan, north of Srinagar, January 5, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A man walks under snow-covered trees during a snowfall on a cold winter morning in Pattan, north of Srinagar, January 5, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





Women walk with umbrellas during a snowfall on a cold winter morning in Srinagar, January 5, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A worker erects a bamboo scaffolding at a makeshift shelter in Kolkata, India January 5, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A Sadhu or Hindu holy man with his face covered with ash puts a wallet decorated with a print of the scrapped Indian 1000-rupee note, which he received as a gift from a devotee, inside a plastic cover at a makeshift shelter in Kolkata, India, January 5, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Workers fill tin containers with cooking oil from a tanker at a wholesale market in Kolkata, India, January 4, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A labourer carries vegetable oil packets on a tricycle as a man stands in front of his shop selling food grains, at a wholesale market in Kolkata, India, January 4, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Schoolchildren attend a yoga session at a camp in Ahmedabad, India January 5, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Offerings are pictured inside a Gurudwara, or a Sikh temple, on the occasion of the 350th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, the last and the tenth Guru of the Sikhs, in Chandigarh, India January 5, 2017. (Photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters)





Sikh devotees queue outside a Gurudwara, or a Sikh temple, to attend a prayers marking the 350th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, the last and the tenth Guru of the Sikhs, in Jammu January 5, 2017. (Photo by Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)





A boy climbs a broken slide at a public park in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums in Mumbai, India, January 5, 2017. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





A woman makes balls of coal, which are used for cooking, and spreads them on a plastic sheet to dry beside a pond in Kolkata, India January 6, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A vendor arranges bags as he waits for customers at his shop at a market in Mumbai, India, January 6, 2017. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





A woman throws a mixture of black ash, cement, concrete powder and ordinary dust over newly constructed road tarmac to dry it and fill in the gaps, in Ahmedabad, India January 6, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





School children attend a yoga session during a week-long camp in Ahmedabad, India January 7, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





School children attend a yoga session during a week-long camp in Ahmedabad, January 7, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Laundrymen wash clothes in a pond at an open-air laundry in Kolkata, India January 6, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A woman transports fodder for her cattle on a bullock cart on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, January 6, 2017. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/Reuters)





A Sikh performer with his eyes covered by a cloth breaks coconuts closely placed around another performer as they perform Gatkha, a traditional form of martial art, during celebrations to mark the 350th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, the last and the tenth Guru of the Sikhs, in Nagaon district, Assam, January 7, 2017. (Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters)





Homeless Indians sit wrapped in warm clothes under a flyover in Jammu, India, Friday, January 6, 2017. Some 800 million people in the country live in poverty, many of them migrating to big cities in search of a livelihood and often ending up on the streets. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





An Indian farmer returns after working in a field on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Thursday, December 29, 2016. More than 70 percent of India's 1.25 billion citizens rely on agriculture for survival. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Indian Sikh holy men, known as “Panj Pyare”, hold Sikh swords during a procession from Sri Akal Takht Sahib at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on January 4, 2017, on the eve of the 350th birth anniversary of the tenth Sikh Guru Gobind Singh. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





An Indian Sikh devotee takes a dip in the holy sarovar (water tank) at The Sikh Shrine Golden Temple in Amritsar on January 5, 2017, during a “Jalau”, a splendour show of Sikhism's symbolic items. The “Jalau” took place on the occasion of the 350th birth anniversary of the tenth Sikh Guru Gobind Singh. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





A young Indian vendor sells flowers to the devotees at a special religious prayer attended by the Tibetan spiritual leader, The Dalai Lama during the Kalachakra event at Bodhgaya on January 6, 2017. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





A migrant worker sleeps outdoors on a cart on a winter morning in New Delhi, India, Thursday, December 29, 2016. Some 800 million people in the country live in poverty, many of them migrating to big cities in search of a livelihood and often ending up on the streets. (Photo by Tsering Topgyal/AP Photo)