Indian Pnar or Jaintia tribesmen carry “Rongs” or chariots and dance in muddy waters as others watch during Behdienkhlam festival celebrations in Tuber village, in the northeastern state of Meghalaya, India, Monday, July 24, 2017. 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)





Kashmiri village women shout pro-Pakistani and pro-freedom slogans during the funeral procession of senior militant Arif Nabi Dar in Lilhar, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, August 1, 2017. Large anti-India protests and clashes spearheaded mostly by students erupted in disputed Kashmir on Tuesday after government forces killed two senior militants in a gunbattle and fatally shot a protester during an ensuing demonstration demanding an end to Indian rule. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





An Indian man reads a newspaper as he sits inside a pipe in New Delhi on August 2, 2017. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)





People use boats as they try to move to safer places along a flooded street in West Midnapore district, in the eastern state of West Bengal, India, July 27, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A man uses a makeshift raft to move out of a flooded neighbourhood after heavy rains in Ahmedabad, July 27, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





People stand on the balcony of a building at a flooded residential colony in Ahmedabad, July 29, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





People carry packets of snacks after receiving them from civil defence volunteers in a flooded neighbourhood after heavy rains in Ahmedabad, July 27, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





People use a boat as they try to move to safer places along a flooded street in West Midnapore district, in West Bengal, July 27, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





People paddle their boats as they try to move to safer places along a flooded street in West Midnapore district, in West Bengal, July 27, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A devotee offers prayers to an idol, a day after “Dashama” festival during which Hindu devotees keep the idols of goddess Dashama in their house for ten days before immersing or keeping them near the banks of the Sabarmati river, in Ahmedabad, India, August 2, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





People wade through a flooded road to collect drinking water in Howrah district, West Bengal, India August 2, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A woman covers her nose as she carries damaged wheat to discard it after flooding at a neighbourhood in Ahmedabad, India, August 3, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Fishermen wash their catch in the waters of a fish farm on the outskirt of Kochi, India, July 31, 2017. (Photo by Sivaram V/Reuters)





Boys row a makeshift raft at a flooded village in Howrah district, West Bengal, India August 2, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A policewoman reacts as she falls off from a motorcycle while taking part in a rehearsal for Independence Day celebrations, in Ahmedabad, India August 4, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A woman carries a child in a plastic container through a road at Tantray Pora in south Kashmir's Kulgam district August 3, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





People stand on the rubble of a house after it was damaged during a gunbattle between militants and Indian security forces in Hakripora in south Kashmir's Pulwama district August 1, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





Indian farmers shout-slogans during a protest against the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) and state government rise of electricity tariffs, outside the office of the Punjab State Power Corporation in Amritsar on August 3, 2017. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





An Indian cycle rickshaw driver transports commuters through a heavy rain downpour in Amritsar on August 1,2017. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





Indian workers prepare Indian national flags for the upcoming India's Independence day celebrations at a workshop in New Delhi on August 3, 2017. Independence day is celebrated every year across India on August 15th to commemorate the independence from the United Kingdom on August 15, 1947. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)





Indian Hindu woman offer prayers to the Hindu Goddess Lakshmi, also known as “Varalakshmi Vratham”, at a temple in Hyderabad on August 4, 2017. The Varalaxmi Vratam is celebrated by married women in order to invoke the blessings of Goddess Lakshmi for their husbands and family members. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





A Indian Hindu devotee with his mouth pierced with metal rod performs a ritual on the occasion of 'Aadi' festival in Chennai on August 4, 2017. Aadi is considered a holy month by Tamils and is celebrated with rituals worshipping Hindu gods. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





An idol of Hindu goddess Dashama stands among offerings and worship materials on the bank of river Sabarmati after the end of Dashama festival in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, August 2, 2017. The ten-days festival celebrated in the Shravan month of the Hindu calendar culminates with the immersion of the idols of this deity who is worshipped in this western Gujarat state. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)