A man washes his horse as a woman bathes her son at concrete water pens under a flyover in a slum area in Kolkata, India October 21, 2016. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)
Women wearing traditional attire take a selfie as they practice the Garba, the traditional dance of Gujarat state, ahead of Navratri in Ahmedabad, India, Tuesday, September 20, 2022. The Hindu festival of Navratri, or nine nights, will begin Sept. 26. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)
People and devotees visit the Jama Masjid mosque in the walled city area of New Delhi on November 26, 2022, after reports stating that Delhi's Jama Masjid management, rolled back a ban on entry of women without families. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)
A man dressed in the likeness of the Hindu deity Agni Kandakarnan performs during the Theyyam ritualistic dance festival on March 14, 2023 in Somwarpet, India. Theyyam is a colourful socioreligious dance form that is the amalgamation of ritual, vocal and instrumental music, dance, painting, and literature and its genesis can be traced to the coastal regions of the southern Indian states of Kerala and Karnataka. (Photo by Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images)
Women walk towards a polling station to cast their ballot during the first phase of voting for the India's general elections in Parbatsar in Rajasthan, on April 19, 2024. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/AFP Photo)
A young exiled Tibetan girl gets her lips painted by her teacher before she performs a traditional dance at an event to celebrate the 89th birthday of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamshala, India, Saturday, July 6, 2024. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)
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)
Hindu devotees offer prayers during “Chhat Puja” festival on the banks of the Brahmaputra River in Guwahati on November 10, 2021. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)