Indian school children, wearing religious makeup and attire sit on a rickshaw as they wait before their performance during their school's Annual Day function in Amritsar, India, 27 December 2016. (Photo by Raminder Pal Singh/EPA)





Kashmiri fishermen holding harpoons, covered under blankets, wait in their boats to catch fish in the partially frozen Anchar lake on December 28, 2016 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. (Photo by Yawar Nazir/Nur Photo)





A man waits for a train at a railway platform on a foggy winter morning, on the outskirts of Agartala, India, December 13, 2016. (Photo by Jayanta Dey/Reuters)





A roadside vendor smokes a water pipe as he waits for customers on a foggy winter morning, on the outskirts of Srinagar, December 13, 2016. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A vendor sells groceries to a customer at his roadside shop in New Delhi, India December 13, 2016. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





People purchase fish from a roadside vendor in New Delhi, India December 13, 2016. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A man sits on a log on a cold winter morning in Srinagar, December 15, 2016. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





Bakers work inside their shop on a cold winter morning in Srinagar, December 15, 2016. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A worker applies colour to strings which will be used to fly kites, on a roadside in Ahmedabad, India, December 15, 2016. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A worker applies colour to strings which will be used to make kites, alongside a road in Ahmedabad, India, December 26, 2016. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Labourers work on a salt pan in Nawa, Nagaur district in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan, India, December 15, 2016. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/Reuters)





A fisherman casts his net in the waters of a pond in Morigaon district, in the northeastern state of Assam, India, December 16, 2016. (Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters)





A vendor wears a Santa Claus mask to attract customers on a roadside in Ahmedabad, India, December 16, 2016. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





People sift through the remains of their houses gutted by a fire in a slum area in the wee hours in Kolkata, India, December 17, 2016. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A woman sifts through the remains of her house gutted by a fire in a slum area in the wee hours in Kolkata, India, December 17, 2016. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A forest official uses an axe to remove the tusk from a dead elephant after it was hit by a train engine while crossing a railway track at Kampur village in Nagaon district in Assam, India, December 17, 2016. (Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters)





People watch as the body of an elephant is lifted by an excavator for its burial after it was hit by a train engine while crossing a railway track at Kampur village in Nagaon district in the northeastern state of Assam, India, December 17, 2016. (Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters)





A man decorates a church ahead of Christmas celebrations in Ahmedabad, India December 18, 2016. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A muslim woman speaks on her mobile phone as she walks through a market in Delhi, India December 14, 2016. (Photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)





A woman cleans an ATM which is out of service in Mumbai, India, November 11, 2016. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





Kashmiri fishermen cover their heads and part of their boats with blankets and straw as they wait to catch fish in the waters of the Anchar Lake on a cold day in Srinagar, December 20, 2016. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





Kashmiri fishermen use their nets to catch fish in the waters of the Anchar Lake on a cold day in Srinagar, December 20, 2016. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





Kashmiri fishermen use spears to catch fish in the waters of the Anchar Lake on a cold day in Srinagar, December 20, 2016. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A rooster sits on a fence on a cold day in Srinagar, December 20, 2016. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A labourer pulls a cart loaded with sacks of spices at a wholesale spice and chemical market in the old quarters of Delhi, India, December 19, 2016. Picture taken December 19, 2016. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A labourer talks on his mobile phone as he sits on the sacks of spices at a wholesale spice and chemical market in the old quarters of Delhi, India, December 19, 2016. Picture taken December 19, 2016. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A woman kisses a figure of the baby Jesus at a church during Christmas celebrations in Jammu December 25, 2016. (Photo by Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)





Children wearing Santa Claus caps pray inside a church during Christmas celebrations in Aizawl, capital of northeastern state of Mizoram, India, December 25, 2016. (Photo by Jayanta Dey/Reuters)





Participants perform yoga exercises on the last day of a week-long yoga camp in Ahmedabad, India, December 25, 2016. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A man brushes his teeth outside a shanty in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, in Mumbai, India, December 27, 2016. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)





Workers make kites with images of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a workshop for the upcoming kite flying festival, locally known as Uttarayan, in Ahmedabad, India December 28, 2016. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A woman warms herself by a fire along a road on a cold winter evening in New Delhi, India, December 28, 2016. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Indian Sikh participants perform “Gatka” the Sikh martial art during a competition in Amritsar on December 20, 2016. Gatka, is a traditional South Asian form of combat-training, developed by Sikhs, in which wooden sticks are used to simulate swords in sparring matches, other weapons are not used for full-contact sparring, but their techniques are taught through forms training. The ritual form is purely for demonstration and is performed to music during occasions such as weddings. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





Indian vendor Geeta sits on the side of the road with her two children as she sells Santa Claus hats and balloons at the roadside in Amritsar on December 21, 2016. lthough Indian Christians make up a mere two percent of the country's billion plus population, Christmas has become a popular festival in the Indian calendar. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





An Indian girl fishes with bare hands on the dried bed of the River Tawi in Jammu, India, Friday, December 23, 2016. The river is considered holy, as are most rivers in India. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





A Kashmiri woman collects smoked fish over slow-burning grass on the outskirts of Srinagar on December 27, 2016. The smoked fish which is known locally as “Fahre” is prepared by slowly smoking over grass, is one of the traditional foods in the Himalayan state, and is usually consumed as part of the Kashmiri winter cuisine. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





A man accidentally catches fire from a burning effigy of the Punjab government at Fauji Chowk during a teachers protest in Bathinda, India on December 21, 2016. (Photo by Sanjeev Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)





Indian women carry plates of flower for an offering during a ceremony for the victims of the 2004 tsunami at Marina Beach in Chennai on December 26, 2016. The earthquake and tsunami that struck the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004 killed over 230,000 people and devastated coastal communities, including the shorelines of the southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Indian women carry plates of flower for an offering during a ceremony for the victims of the 2004 tsunami at Marina Beach in Chennai on December 26, 2016. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Indian women offer prayers during a ceremony for the victims of the 2004 tsunami at Marina Beach in Chennai on December 26, 2016. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Indian women throw flowers into the sea as an offering during a ceremony for the victims of the 2004 tsunami at Marina Beach in Chennai on December 26, 2016. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)