A man rows a boat carrying lotus roots through a polluted portion of Dal Lake in Srinagar on August 29, 2022. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





A street rickshaw puller seen sitting along the main road while waiting for customers in Kolkata, India on August 28, 2022. (Photo by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Indian Coast Guard cadets demonstrate during the National Maritime Search and Rescue Workshop and Exercise (SAREX-22) off the coast of Chennai on August 28, 2022. Eighteen ships and seven planes from the coast guard took part to demonstrate different techniques and technology exercise simulated to rescue from a passenger ship supposedly on fire and an aircraft that crashed into the sea. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A vendor waits for customers while sitting in front of the idols of the elephant-headed Hindu god Lord Ganesha displayed for sale along a street ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival on the outskirts of Hyderabad on August 29, 2022. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





A boat man plucks lotus flower from a lotus plantation in the interiors of Dal Lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 August 2022. (Photo by Farooq Khan//EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Indian people go shopping at a market ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, 30 August 2022. The forthcoming Ganesha Chaturthi is a ten-day long event which is celebrated all over India. During the Ganpati festival, that is celebrated as the birthday of Lord Ganesha, idols of the Hindu deity are worshipped at hundreds of pandals or makeshift tents before they are immersed into water bodies. This year, the festival starts on 31 August 2022. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki//EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Labourers push a handcart loaded with baskets of fish from a port in Mumbai on August 30, 2022. (Photo by Indranil Mukherjee/AFP Photo)





Children wearing masks of the elephant-headed Hindu God Lord Ganesha take part in an awareness campaign against the use of plastic ahead of the “Ganesh Chaturthi” festival, at a school in Chennai on August 30, 2022. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Pulikali or tiger dance artists pose for photographs before participating in the Athachamayam procession marking the beginning of Onam festival in Kochi, southern Kerala state, India, Tuesday, August 30, 2022. (Photo by R.S. Iyer/AP Photo)





A passerby takes a selfie with an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu God Lord Ganesh in the avatar of a policeman during 'Ganesh Chaturthi' festival in Mumbai on August 31, 2022. (Photo by Indranil Mukherjee/AFP Photo)





Indian devotee offers prayer to an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha, before taking it to their home on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, in Mumbai, India, 31 August 2022. The Ganesh Chaturthi festival is a ten-day long event which is celebrated all over India. During the Ganpati festival, that is celebrated as the birthday of Lord Ganesha, idols of the Hindu deity are worshipped at hundreds of pandals or makeshift tents before they are immersed into water bodies. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA/EFE)





Devotees carry an idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha to take home for worship during Ganesh Chaturthi festival celebrations in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, August 31, 2022. The 10-day long Ganesh festival began Wednesday and ends with the immersion of Ganesha idols in water bodies on the final day. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





A quick reaction team police officer stands guard near a giant clay idol of elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha during Ganesh Chaturthi festival celebrations in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, August 31, 2022. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Indian devotee offers prayer to an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha, before taking it to their home on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, in Mumbai, India, 31 August 2022. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA/EFE)





Hindu devotees prepare to carry an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu deity Ganesha on the first day of ten-day “Ganesh Chaturthi” festival in Mumbai on August 31, 2022. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)





Hindu devotees transport an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu deity Ganesha during a procession on the first day of ten-day “Ganesh Chaturthi” festival in Mumbai on August 31, 2022. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)





People are worshipping an idol of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, inside a “pandal” a temporary makeshift tent on the first day of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Kolkata on August 31, 2022. (Photo by Sudipta Das/Pacific Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Performers take part in a rally during the celebrations after the Durga Puja was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, in Kolkata on September 1, 2022. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





A man immerses an idol of elephant headed Hindu god Ganesha during Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, Thursday, September 1, 2022. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





A Naval officer takes a picture of a woman on the deck of the Indian indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant during its commissioning at Cochin Shipyard in Kochi on September 2, 2022. India debuted its first locally made aircraft carrier on September 2, a milestone in government efforts to reduce its dependence on foreign arms and counter China's growing military assertiveness in the region. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)