A boy somersaults past a horse-driven cart on a beach along the Arabian sea in Mumbai, India March 6, 2017. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)





Kashmiri village woman carries a basket on her head on the outskirts of Srinagar during a fresh snowfall on March 10, 2017. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





A Bharatiya Janata Party supporter's hands are covered in saffron color as he shows victory sign as they celebrate winning seats in the Uttar Pradesh state legislature elections in, Lucknow, India, Saturday, March 11, 2017. India's governing Hindu nationalist party was heading for major victories Saturday in key state legislature elections that are seen as a referendum on the performance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nearly 3-year-old government. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Young Indian women wear traditional Punjabi dress as they perform the “Giddha” dance during celebrations on the occasion of an International Women' s Day function in Amritsar on March 8, 2017. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





Women leave after attending Aajibaichi Shaala (Grandmothers' School) in Fangane village, India, February 20, 2017. Aajibaichi Shaala is not your ordinary school in India. The students at “grandmothers' school” in the village of Fangane are elderly women who are getting the chance to learn to read. India's literacy rate grew to 74 percent in the decade to 2011, according to the latest census, but female literacy continued to lag the rate for males by a wide margin. About 65 percent of women were found to be literate, compared with 82 percent of men, according to the 2011 report. Education experts and researchers have cited outdated attitudes toward women, including a preference for male children over females, and child marriages as main reasons for the lower female literacy rate. At Aajibaichi, afternoon classes in the one-room school are held six days a week for two hours. The lessons are timed so the women can finish their chores, or their work in the fields, before attending class. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





Vanita Dhau, 65, who studies at Aajibaichi Shaala (Grandmothers' School), works inside her house in Fangane village, India, February 20, 2017. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





Labourers work at a brick factory at Rupahi village in Nagaon district in the northeastern state of Assam, India, March 7, 2017. (Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters)





Widows take part in Holi celebrations in the town of Vrindavan in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, March 9, 2017. (Photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)





Widows take part in Holi celebrations in the town of Vrindavan in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, March 9, 2017. (Photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)





Students of Rabindra Bharati University blow colour powder during Holi, the Festival of Colours, celebrations inside the university campus in Kolkata, India, March 9, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Hindu nuns hold their umbrellas as they wait to participate in a rally marking the International Women's Day in Kolkata, India, March 8, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Supporters of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrate after learning of the initial poll results outside the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, March 11, 2017. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A supporter of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrates after learning of the initial poll results outside the party headquarters in Kolkata, India, March 11, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





New recruits of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) raise their weapons in air as they celebrate their graduation ceremony in Humhama, outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. A total of 126 recruits formally inducted into the BSF, will join Indian soldiers fighting separatist Islamic guerrillas in Kashmir to help end an insurgency that started in 1989. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





An Indian widow dances during celebrations for Holi or “festival of colors” in Vrindavan on March 9, 2017. Widows congregated on a small patio of the Govinath temple in which they live and danced and played with colored powder to celebrate the occasion. (Photo by Dominique Faget/AFP Photo)





Bharatiya Janata Party supporters dance and throw colored powder as they celebrate at the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Saturday, March 11, 2017. (Photo by Tsering Topgyal/AP Photo)





Indian students smear coloured powder at an event to celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi in Kolkata on March 7, 2017. Holi, the popular Hindu spring festival of colours is observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month, and will be celebrated on March 13 this year. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





Indian Hindu devotees celebrate Holi, the spring festival of colours, during a traditional gathering at Nandgaon village in Uttar Pradesh state on March 7, 2017. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Indian widows celebrate Holi or the “festival of colors” in Vrindavan on March 9, 2017. Widows congregated on a small patio of the Govinath temple in which they live and danced and played with colored powder to celebrate the occasion. (Photo by Dominique Faget/AFP Photo)





Students take part in an event to celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi in Kolkata on March 7, 2017. (Photo by Sushavan Nandy/NurPhoto)





Locals including Hindu widows throw flower petals and colored powder during the religious arrival of spring festival called Holi at the Gopinath temple in Vrindavan, 180 kilometers (112 miles) south-east of New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 9, 2017. Up to just a few years ago the festival was forbidden for Hindu widows. Like hundreds of thousands of observant Hindu women, they would have been expected to live out their days in quiet worship, dressed only in white, with their very presence being considered inauspicious for all religious festivities. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Indian Hindu men smeared with colors play Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, at the Gopinath temple, in Vrindavan, 180 kilometers (112 miles) south-east of New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 9, 2017. (Photo by Bernat Armangue/AP Photo)





Indian widows participate in a celebration of the Holi festival in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India, 09 March 2017. Thousands of Hindu widows, shunned and ignored by their own families, marked the Hindu spring Festival of Colors in a event organized by Indian NGO Sulabh International. The Sulabh International tries to improve the condition of widows, who are living in government shelter homes, as in many parts of India widows are not allowed to celebrate Holi and participate in other festivals. (Photo by Harishh Tyagi/EPA)





An Indian vendor prepares garlands of traditional sweets made of sugar which are used by Hindu devotees during the celebrations of Holi, on a street in Hyderabad on March 9, 2017. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





Indian Students of Rabindra Bharati University at the BT Road Campuses Celebrates the Holi, Color Festival on March 09, 2017 in Kolkata.Holi, the popular Hindu spring festival of colours is observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month, and will be celebrated on March 13 this year. (Photo by Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto)





A homeless Indian man and his puppy are reflected in a mirror as he shaves himself on a street in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on March 9, 2017. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Indian students celebrate the Holi festival with coloured powder at Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar on March 10, 2017. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)