An Indian Christian girl waits for a ceremony at a Church on Easter Sunday in Gauhati, India, Sunday, April 16, 2017. Christians make up about 2.3 percent of India's population of 1.26 billion. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





On the river Yamuna, Mr Ramnath rows his boat, ready to feed the migrating birds, April 2017. Many more locals do the same, eager for the good karma it may bring. Every year between October and March, thousands of seagulls migrate from Siberia to Delhi. Locals come to feed them, believing it is good karma. This image shows one of them, Mr Ramnath, rowing across the river Yamuna near the Red Fort at sunset. (Photo by Saurabh Narang/The Guardian)





A Kashmiri shepherd tosses a lamb after rescuing it from being washed away while crossing a stream with his flock, in Harshan village 35 Kilometers (22 miles) north of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, April 18, 2017. With its sufficient pasture lands, sheep rearing is popular in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





An Indian tribal woman reacts after an earthen pot filled with water falls off her head during a hundred meters run event with water pots on head, during the Suwori Tribal festival in Boko, about 70 kilometers (44 miles) west of Gauhati, India, Thursday, April 20, 2017. Traditional elephant fights, elephant races, horse races, tug of war and dances mark this festival which coincides with the Assamese Rongali Bihu, or the harvest festival of the northeastern Indian state of Assam. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





This photo taken on April 18, 2017 shows Indian labourers transporting bamboo logs down the Longai River near the Tripura-Mizoram state border in Damchara, India. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Indian workers rest after unloading mangoes at the Gaddiannaram Fruit Market on the outskirts of Hyderabad on April 12, 2017. India produces over 40 per cent of the world's mangoes, growing some 30 varieties commercially. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





An Indian mother and daughter pray as they watch the reenacting of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ during Good Friday in Hyderabad, India, Friday, April 14, 2017. Christians around the world are marking the solemn period of Easter. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Boys play in a fountain on a hot summer's day in New Delhi, April 13, 2017. (Photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)





A Hindu holy man (not pictured) touches a child with his feet as part of a ritual to bless him during a religious procession to mark the Gajan festival in Kolkata, India, April 13, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





An infant lies on the back of a woman as she performs a ritual while worshipping Sheetala Mata, the Hindu goddess of smallpox, during Sheetala Puja in which people pray for the betterment of their family and society, in Kolkata, April 15, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Scavengers collect recyclable materials at a garbage dump site on the occasion of Earth Day, in Guwahati, India, April 22, 2017. (Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters)





An Indian child dressed as the Hindu deity Shiva dances with others as they begs for alms in Siliguri on April 12, 2017, ahead of the “Charak” ritual that is observed on the last day of the Bengali calender year. Hindu devotees offer various symbolic sacrifices hoping for the favour of Shiva to mark the advent of the Bengali new year, which falls on April 14. (Photo by Diptendu Dutta/AFP Photo)





An Indian youth jumps into the water of a decorative shallow pool adorning the gardens surrounding the India Gate monument on a hot Indian day in New Delhi on April 14, 2017. (Photo by Prakash Singh/AFP Photo)





An Indian man drinks water from an earthen pot kept by the side of a road for people on a hot day in Ahmadabad, India, Friday, April 21, 2017. Most of north India has been reeling under a heat wave with temperatures rising above 40 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





Indian nomad youths play in the water with their herd of buffaloes as they cool off in the Tawi River on a hot day on the outskirts of Jammu on April 20, 2017. Heatwave conditions in northern Jammu and Kashmir state saw temperatures push past 41 degrees celsius. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A Hindu devotee offers prayers inside a temple on the first day of the Bengali New Year in Kolkata, April 15, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A woman drinks water from a public water facility at a roadside market on a hot day in Ahmedabad, April 18, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A Hindu priest sacrifices a rooster during the festival of Garia Puja, where devotees pray and perform rituals to honour Lord Garia, believed to be the deity of wealth, livestock, peace and children, in Agartala, India April 21, 2017. (Photo by Jayanta Dey/Reuters)





People take part in a community fishing session during the Rongali Bihu festival celebrations at Digholi lake in Nagaon district, in the northeastern state of Assam, April 13, 2017. (Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters)





A man rests on a girder between the two pillars of a bridge on the Sabarmati river during a hot summer day in Ahmedabad, April 17, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A vendor selling curtains waits for customers on a footpath along a road in Kochi, April 13, 2017. (Photo by Sivaram V/Reuters)





Workers remove dust from wheat at a wholesale grain market in Chandigarh, April 17, 2017. (Photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters)





A Hindu devotee hangs from a rope and throws offerings for people to catch during the “Chadak” ritual, which is held to worship the Hindu deity Lord Shiva, in Kolkata, April 14, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A resident looks at toxic froth floating on the polluted Bellandur Lake in Bengaluru, April 20, 2017. (Photo by Abhishek N. Chinnappa/Reuters)





A Hindu holy man touches children with his foot as part of a ritual to bless them during a religious procession to mark the Gajan festival in Kolkata, April 13, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A mahout, or elephant owner, takes his elephant into river Yamuna for a bath on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India April 21, 2017. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A labourer empties a salt basket in a salt pan in Mumbai, April 10, 2017. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)





Workers stack blocks of ice in a shop, for sale at a marketplace, on a hot summer day in Kolkata, India April 21, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Hindu devotees worship idols of Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, and goddess of wealth Laxmi, during a ritual on the first day of the Bengali New Year inside a temple in Kolkata, April 15, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





People fetch drinking water from a well, on the outskirts of Ajmer, April 18, 2017. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/Reuters)





A Hindu boy has his face painted before taking part in a ritual as part of the annual Shiva Gajan religious festival on the outskirts of Agartala, April 13, 2017. (Photo by Jayanta Dey/Reuters)





Girls bath inside a drum on a hot summer day at a field in New Delhi, April 18, 2017. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Kashmiri farmers walk through a mustard field on the outskirts of Srinagar April 19, 2017. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





In this photograph taken on April 15, 2017, Indian farmers use a tractor drawn cart as they transport their cargo of wheathusk to a distribution point on the outskirts of Alwar in the western state of Rajasthan. India is one of the world largest wheat producing country. (Photo by Dominique Faget/AFP Photo)