An Indian Hindu devotee pours milk on a snake as an offering during the annual Nag Panchami festival, dedicated to the worship of snakes outside the Nagvasuki temple, in Allahabad, on July 28, 2017. Officially the snake charmers' profession is banned in India, but many in the country offered prayers and milk blessings to cobras and other deadly serpents on July 28 in an annual tribute. The 800,000 charmers and their young apprentices come to the fore for the Nag Panchami festival which dates back several centuries. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)

A girl dresses up as the Hindu deity Krishna to celebrate Janmashtami, his birthday in Agartala, India on August 26, 2019. (Photo by Abhisek Saha/Barcroft Media)

Police officers intervene as a man attempts to hang himself during a protest to oppose the sharing of river water with a neighboring state, in Bengaluru, India on September 26, 2023. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

A Naga girl carries a child and walks up a slope during sunset in Kohima, capital of the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, Thursday, September 19, 2019. Nagas are indigenous people living in several northeastern Indian states and across the border in Myanmar. (Photo by Yirmiyan Arthur/AP Photo)

A vendor prepares breakfast on his mobile cart place on a railway track on which train services are suspended temporarily due to festival rush in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, October 2, 2024. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)

A leather worker with his frightening types of clothes prepares after painted themselves using chimney soot as they participate in a programme within the September 6 celebrations, in Balikesir, Turkey on September 06, 2019. According to the story, “Tulutabaklar” were painting themselves with ash and wearing goatskin or sheep skin to frighten the Greek soldiers occupying Balikesir during the National Struggle period. Every year on September 6, Tulutabaklar perform this ritual as part of the celebration of liberation of the city for 96 years. (Photo by Ali Atmaca/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A worker collects water chestnuts from a pond on the outskirts of Ajmer on October 3, 2023. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/AFP Photo)

Devotees gather to take part in the celebrations to mark the Krishna Janmashtami festival at a temple in Jalandhar on August 26, 2024. (Photo by Shammi Mehra/AFP Photo)