Indians smeared in color participate in Holi festival celebrations in Gauhati, India, Monday, March 29, 2021. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Flocks of flamingos are pictured in a pond in Navi Mumbai on March 29, 2021. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)





People daubed in colours rest as they take a break during Holi celebrations, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Chennai, India, March 29, 2021. (Photo by P. Ravikumar/Reuters)





An Indian woman smeared in colors and wearing mask embraces her child during Holi festival celebrations in Mumbai, India, Monday, March 29, 2021. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





Indians play with colors as they celebrate Holi in Hyderabad, India, Monday, March 29, 2021. Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, also heralds the arrival of spring. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Indians smear colored powder on each other as they celebrate Holi in Jammu, India, Sunday, March 28, 2021. Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, also heralds the arrival of spring. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Trash pickers surround a municipal garbage truck dumping trash at the Bhalswa landfill on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. The pandemic has amplified the risks that these informal workers face. Few have their own protective gear or even clean water to wash their hands, said Chitra Mukherjee of Chintan, a nonprofit environmental research group in New Delhi. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Manuwara Begun, 46, sorts out garbage collected from households in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Begun lives in a cardboard hut behind a five-star hotel in the heart of New Delhi and feels the inequity keenly. Trash pickers often find it hard to get vaccines because they are not considered by the government to be essential workers or cannot afford to wait at overburdened public hospitals for free shots. Chintan estimates that each year, those like her save the local government over $50 million and eliminate over 900,000 tons of carbon dioxide by diverting waste away from landfills. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Trash collectors look for recyclables at Bhalswa landfill on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. An estimated 20 million people around the world help keep cities clean by scavenging through landfills and dumps. Experts say these trash pickers, who sometimes toil alongside paid municipal sanitation workers, provide a vital service, yet they usually are not on a priority list for vaccines against the coronavirus. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Sahra Bano sorts reusable items from the Bhalswa landfill on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. An estimated 20 million people around the world help keep cities clean by scavenging through landfills and dumps. Experts say these trash pickers, who sometimes toil alongside paid municipal sanitation workers, provide a vital service, yet they usually are not on a priority list for coronavirus vaccines. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Trash pickers look for recyclable waste at the Bhalswa landfill on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. An estimated 20 million people around the world help keep cities clean by scavenging through landfills and dumps. Experts say these trash pickers, who sometimes toil alongside paid municipal sanitation workers, provide a vital service, yet they usually are not on a priority list for coronavirus vaccines. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Young girls play near a landfill on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Revellers smeared in colour powder celebrate the Holi, the spring festival of colours, on a street in Guwahati on March 29, 2021. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)





An Indian woman smeared in colors looks on during Holi festival in Mumbai, India, Monday, March 29, 2021. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





Youth, with their faces smeared with colored powder, ride on motor bikes during Holi festivities in Hyderabad, India, Monday, March 29, 2021. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A.)/AP Photo





Indians smear colored powder on each other during Holi festival in Mumbai, India, Monday, March 29, 2021. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





A child covered in color dust stands as tourists and locals celebrate Holi festival in Kolkata, Eastern India, 28 March 2021. The tradition of Holi, also known as Festival of Colors, heralds the beginning of spring and will be celebrated on 28 March in Bengal. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA/EFE)





Tourists and locals apply colour dust to each other as they celebrate Holi festival in Kolkata, Eastern India, 28 March 2021. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA/EFE)





Indian people apply color on each other during Holi festival celebrations in Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir, India, 28 March 2021. (Photo by Jaipal Singh/EPA/EFE)