Students play during recess at a school after a majority of schools were reopened following their closure due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Ahmedabad, India, February 25, 2022. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Exile Tibetan Buddhist monks in ceremonial hats gather for a morning prayer assembly at the Tsuglakhang Temple, which opened for the first time since early 2020, in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, March 3, 2022. Tibetans the world over are celebrating the beginning of their new year “Losar”. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





A group of Indian students wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus return from their school in Kolkata, India, Thursday, March 3, 2022. Slowly but steadily, life in South Asia is returning to normal, and people hope the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind them. Experts are optimistic that the omicron surge, which brought relatively low levels of death, has reinforced immunity from vaccines, which are widespread in the region. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





Relatives, friends and neighbors of slain 24-year-old girl Rafiya Nazir react during her funeral in Srinagar, India, 07 March 2022. Two people, including Rafiya Nazir, were killed and more than 30 others were injured when a grenade was thrown in the middle of the crowd at a busy market in Srinagar on 06 March 2022. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA/EFE)





A Muslim woman wearing a veil stands in queue to cast her vote at a polling station during the last phase of state assembly election in Varanasi in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, March 7, 2022. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel from women's motorcycle team “Sema Bhawani” ride their Royal Enfield motorcycles during the BSF Seema Bhawani Shaurya expedition-Empowerment Ride at India Gate in New Delhi in March 8, 2022, on the occasion of International Women's Day. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)





A woman shopkeeper adjusts her saree to cover her head while waiting for customers at a roadside shop in New Delhi on March 8, 2022, on the occasion of International Women's Day. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)





Men walk along a street past a construction site fence in New Delhi on March 9, 2022. (Photo by Xavier Galiana/AFP Photo)





A vendor selling colored powder for the upcoming Hindu festival Holi waits for customers at Sadar Bazaar market in the old quarters of New Delhi on March 9, 2022. (Photo by Xavier Galiana/AFP Photo)





A man rests at the roadside as a woman carries a load of oak leaves collected from the wild in Dharmsala, India, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





A brass band member plays a wind instrument as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters dance to celebrate election results at the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 10, 2022. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party has a commanding lead in crucial state polls, despite his government's criticized handling of COVID-19, soaring unemployment and farmer protests. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Supporters of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrate outside the party office in Lucknow on March 10, 2022, on the day of counting of votes for the Uttar Padesh state asembly elections. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





Supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) embrace each other as they celebrate election results at the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers celebrate in Lucknow, India, Thursday, March 10, 2022. India's election authority started counting votes Thursday in five states' elections that are a crucial test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party before national elections in 2024. All results are expected to be available later in the day. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Police detain a protester during a demonstration near the Chinese embassy to mark the 63rd Tibetan uprising anniversary in New Delhi on March 10, 2022. (Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP Photo)





Exile Tibetan artists play their national anthem as they gather to mark the anniversary of the 1959 Lhasa uprising in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, March 10, 2022. Hundreds of Tibetans had come out to protest against Chinese rule in the Tibetan capital in 1959. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





People play chess as a man walks past with his yak in Dharmsala, India, Friday, March 11, 2022. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





Revellers daubed in colours sing religious hymns at the Radha Rani temple during the Lathmar Holi celebrations, the Hindu spring festival of colours, in Barsana village in India's Uttar Pradesh state on March 11, 2022. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/AFP Photo)





Students performs the traditional Mallakhamba during the inauguration of Khel Mahakumbh, a state level sporting event, in Ahmedabad, India, Saturday, March 12, 2022. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





Revellers daubed in colours sing religious hymns during the Lathmar Holi celebrations, the Hindu spring festival of colours, at Nandgaon village in India's Uttar Pradesh state on March 12, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)