Students perform during a “Bhangra” folk dance competition at a university in Amritsar on October 29, 2024. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers offer sweet to each other during the celebrations to mark country's Republic Day at the India-Pakistan Wagah border post, about 35kms from Amritsar on January 26, 2025. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)

Devotees of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) celebrate Holi, the Hindu spring festival of colours, at a temple on the outskirts of Amritsar on March 13, 2025. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)

A Nihang or Sikh warrior performs “Gatka”, an ancient form of Sikh martial arts, during a religious procession on the eve of the birth anniversary of the ninth Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur outside the Golden Temple in Amritsar on April 17, 2025. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)

A boy sits next to sacrificial goats resting during Eid al-Adha in New Delhi, India, 29 June 2023. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha or feast of sacrifice, by slaughtering sheep, goats and cows to commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail at God's command. (Photo by Harish Tyagi/EPA)

Students perform a traditional dance during the Onam festival celebrations in Chennai on August 25, 2023. (Photo by R. Satish Babu/AFP Photo)

In this June 16, 2015 photo, an Indian coachman sleeps on his Victoria horse-drawn carriage outside a stable in Mumbai, India. Drivers of Mumbai's iconic horse-drawn carriages can't imagine not plying the roads pulling photo-snapping tourists atop their kitsch-covered chariots. Yet that time is coming, thanks to a court order calling such superfluous “joyrides” a form of animal cruelty and banning them in India's financial capital from June 2016. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)

An Indian women offers early-morning prayers or a “puja” at a ghat early in the morning on the banks of the Betawa River in Orchha in the state of Madhya Pradesh on July 5, 2015. (Photo by Rebecca Conway/AFP Photo)