Students perform dance during a cultural meet in Chandigarh. Photo: PTI
A Kashmiri labourer picks apples at an orchard in Shopian near Srinagar. Photo: Nissar Ahmad
A devotee with a rat sitting on his turban at the Karni Mata Temple of Deshnoke near Bikaner in Rajasthan during the Navratra festival. Rats are treated as sacred and given protection in the temple. Photo: PTI
Egrets frolicking in a college compound in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. Photo: V. Raju
Daily wage labourers transport a Durga idol at Kumartuli in Kolkata, West Bengal. Photo: Arunangsu Roy Chowdhury.
A child covers her nose in the foggy street as health workers fumigate the vicinity with anti-mosquito spray, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Photo: AP
Hindu devotees ride on a boat before bathing in river Ganga during the Navratri festival in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. Photo: AP