A couple cross a portion of the Sabarmati river covered with aquatic plants after collecting usable items thrown as offerings by Hindu worshippers in the river, a day after the “Dashama” festival in Ahmedabad, India, August 19, 2021. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





An Indian policemen is shielded by a Kashmiri Shiite Muslim, right, while others attack him during a religious procession in central Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, August 17, 2021. Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Tuesday fired tear gas and warning shots to disperse hundreds of Shiite Muslims, while detaining dozens who attempted to participate in processions marking the Muslim month of Muharram. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





Indian policemen detain a Kashmiri Shiite Muslim for participating in a religious procession in central Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, August 17, 2021. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A Contigent of Indian Policemen stand in formation at Khushal Stadium where the authorities of Sopore held main function during India's 75th Independence Day Celebrations in Sopore District Baramulla Jammu and Kashmir India on 15 August 2021. (Photo by Nasir Kachroo/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





An health worker fumigates an area to control the breeding of mosquitoes in Mumbai, India, Thursday, August 19, 2021. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Kashmiri Shi'ite Muslims shout religious slogans as they ride on boats in the interiors of Dal Lake during a Muharram procession ahead of Ashura in Srinagar August 18, 2021. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A Kashmiri Shi'ite Muslim mourner reacts as he is detained by Indian police while trying to participate in a Muharram procession ahead of Ashura in Srinagar August 17, 2021. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A Shi'ite Muslim holds a child to touch “Taziya”, a replica of the shrine of Imam Hussein, for blessing during a Muharram procession marking Ashura in Ahmedabad, India, August 20, 2021. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Parsi women wait for transport next to a bas-relief depicting early Zoroastrians at a Parsi colony on Navroze, the Parsi New Year, in Mumbai, India, Monday, Aug.ust 16, 2021. Parsis, also known as Zoroastrians, worship fire and are followers of the Bronze Age Persian prophet Zarathustra. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Wild buffalo cool off at the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Gauhati, India on August 16, 2021. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





An artisan prepares face masks resembling various Hindu deities for Kummattikali which is a form of colourful mask dance as a part of Onam festival celebrations in Kerala on August 18, 2021. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Birds sit on a wire in a paddy field at Moronga village, along the Assam-Meghalaya state border, India, Friday, August 13, 2021. More than 60 percent of India's 1.3 billion citizens engage in agriculture. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Members of India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) distribute food supplies to stranded residents in a submerged area following heavy monsoon rains on the banks of the flooded River Ganges in Prayagraj, India. Friday, August 13, 2021. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Traditional Indian wrestlers engage in a bout during Nag Panchami festival in Prayagraj, India. Friday, August 13, 2021. Every year, the wrestlers offer prayers and hold bouts to mark the festival which is primarily dedicated to the worship of snakes. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Wrestlers take part in a bout of traditional wrestling at the Loknath Vyayamsala wrestling club to mark the Nag Panchami festival in Allahabad on August 13, 2021. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





A long exposure photo shows Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus railway station illuminated, ahead of India's Independence Day celebrations in Mumbai, India, 13 August 2021. India will celebrate the 75th anniversary of its independence from British rule on 15 August 2021. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA/EFE)





Young girls ride a cycle load carrier in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, August 17, 2021. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





People wait to get inoculated against COVID-19 at a cinema hall in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, August 17, 2021. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





A Kashmiri Shia Muslim boy dressed as IRGC (Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) holds an Islamic flag during the Ashura procession in Srinagar on August 20, 2021. Shia Muslim believers offer prayers, beat their chests while chanting religious slogans and distribute religious food called “nazri”, as they reenact aspects of the killing of Imam Hussain and his 72 followers in 680AD in Karbala on Ashura (the 10th of Muharram), in modern-day Iraq, by the far larger armies of the Yazid. Imam Hussain is revered among Shia's as the “Lord of the Martyrs”, whose resistance and willingness to die for his religious faith in the face of overwhelming force is venerated by Shia's as a model for daily life. (Photo by Idrees Abbas/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A child sleeps inside a makeshift hammock made of a saree which is a tradition Indian costume worn by women, along a road in New Delhi on August 19, 2021. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)