Pnar, or Jaintia, tribals carry “Rongs” or chariots and dance in muddy waters during Behdienkhlam festival celebrations in Tuber village, in the northeastern state of Meghalaya, India, Friday, July 22, 2022. Behdienkhlam is a traditional festival of the Pnars celebrated after sowing is done seeking a good harvest and to drive away plague and diseases. Young men symbolically drive away evil spirits by beating the roof of every house with bamboo poles. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





An Indian Hindu devotee dances after piercing a steel rod through his cheeks as part of a ritual during an annual pilgrimage to the temple of Hindu goddess Sheetla Mata in Jammu, India, Sunday, July 24, 2022. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





An Indian artist gets make up before a performance during a procession of “Bonalu” festival in Hyderabad, India, Monday, July 25, 2022. Bonalu is a month-long Hindu folk festival of the Telangana region dedicated to Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





An Indian artist dressed as Hindu goddess Mahakali performs during a procession marking “Bonalu” festival in Hyderabad, India, Monday, July 25, 2022. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





People wait to be carried into a hospital for treatment after falling sick from consuming spurious liquor in Botad, India, Tuesday, July 26, 2022. At least 21 people have died and another 30 fallen sick from drinking spurious liquor in India's western state of Gujarat, officials said Tuesday. Senior government official Mukesh Parmar said the deaths occurred in Ahmedabad and Botad districts of the state, where manufacturing, sale and consumption of liquor are prohibited. (Photo by AP Photo)





A man is shifted on a stretcher upon arriving in an ambulance at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad on July 26, 2022, after suffering health problems due to consuming bootleg liquor. (Photo by Sam Panthaky/AFP Photo)





Boys stand on an arch of Napier bridge painted as chessboard on the occasion of Chess Olympiad 2022, which will be held from 28 July to 10 August, in Chennai on July 26, 2022. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Children dressed as chess pieces perform during an event organised ahead of the 44th Chess Olympiad 2022, in Chennai on July 26, 2022. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Children dressed as chess pieces perform during an event organised ahead of the 44th Chess Olympiad 2022, in Chennai on July 26, 2022. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Wild Asiatic elephant herd grassing in a Tea garden in Golaghat, India on July 26, 2022. (Photo by Hafiz Ahmed/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Members of security personnel detain an activist of India's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) near the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters during a protest in New Delhi on July 27, 2022, after at least 30 people allegedly died due to consumption of spurious liquor in Gujarat state. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)





S. Jothimani, a lawmaker from India's main opposition Congress party reacts as she is being detained outside the Parliament while she and other lawmakers from the party were protesting against the Enforcement Directorate summons to their party leader and what they say is increasing price hike and inflation in the country, in New Delhi, India on July 27, 2022. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





Policemen watch a road inundated with water from the overflowing Musi river after heavy rainfall in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Kashmiri devotees raise their hands and pray as the head priest, displays a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the Prophet Mohammad during special prayers to observe the Martyr Day of second Khalifa of Islam Hazrat Umar-e- Farooq, at Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A woman mourns at a graveyard during Diwaso festival in Ahmedabad, India, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Members of Devipujak community gather at graveyards to mourn and offer gifts to deceased relatives during this annual festival. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





Sushil Kumar Bind leads his family members towards the field where his wife Khushboo who was killed by lightning on July 25 at Piparaon village on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Seven people, mostly farmers, were killed by lightning in a village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, police said Thursday, bringing the death toll by lightning to 49 people in the state this week. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Women work in a paddy field adjacent to the field where another woman, Khusboo Bind, was killed by lightning on July 25 at Piparaon village on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A farmer describes the scene when Khushboo Bind was killed by lightning in the adjacent paddy field on July 25, at Piparaon village on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A woman wades through a waterlogged street during heavy rainfall in Jammu, India, Thursday, July 28, 2022. India's monsoon season runs from June to September. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)