• A keeper makes his trained monkey perform to attract money from onlookers on the first day of the New Year, in Kolkata. Bikas Das / AP Photo
    A keeper makes his trained monkey perform to attract money from onlookers on the first day of the New Year, in Kolkata. Bikas Das / AP Photo
  • A fisherman starts a fire to cook a meal before going out to fish in the river Brahmaputra in Gauhati. Anupam Nath / AP Photo
    A fisherman starts a fire to cook a meal before going out to fish in the river Brahmaputra in Gauhati. Anupam Nath / AP Photo
  • Sikh devotees pay their respects at the illuminated Golden Temple in Amritsar, on the eve of the 350th birth anniversary of the 10th Sikh Guru Gobind Singh. Narinder Nanu / AFP
    Sikh devotees pay their respects at the illuminated Golden Temple in Amritsar, on the eve of the 350th birth anniversary of the 10th Sikh Guru Gobind Singh. Narinder Nanu / AFP
  • Military personnel stand guard as they rehearse for the forthcoming Republic Day parade at Rajpath in New Delhi. Chandan Khanna / AFP
    Military personnel stand guard as they rehearse for the forthcoming Republic Day parade at Rajpath in New Delhi. Chandan Khanna / AFP
  • Activists of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) shout slogans as they burn an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a protest meeting in Siliguri. Diptendu Dutta / AFP
    Activists of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) shout slogans as they burn an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a protest meeting in Siliguri. Diptendu Dutta / AFP
  • Sikh devotees, show their skills depicting a mock fight in a ring of fire, as they perform during a religious procession to mark the 350th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh guru in Bhopal. Sanjeev Gupta / EPA
    Sikh devotees, show their skills depicting a mock fight in a ring of fire, as they perform during a religious procession to mark the 350th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh guru in Bhopal. Sanjeev Gupta / EPA
  • Sikh devotees pay their respects on New Year's Day at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Narinder Nanu / AFP
    Sikh devotees pay their respects on New Year's Day at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Narinder Nanu / AFP
  • A fisherman walks on his boat during a day of dense fog on the Dal Lake in Srinagar. Tauseef Mustafa / AFP
    A fisherman walks on his boat during a day of dense fog on the Dal Lake in Srinagar. Tauseef Mustafa / AFP
  • Children take part in a religious procession in Amritsar. Raminder Pal Singh / EPA
    Children take part in a religious procession in Amritsar. Raminder Pal Singh / EPA
  • Snow falls as a Kashmiri shepherd stands by his herd on the outskirts of Srinagar. Mukhtar Khan / AP Photo
    Snow falls as a Kashmiri shepherd stands by his herd on the outskirts of Srinagar. Mukhtar Khan / AP Photo
  • Kashmiri protesters throw stones at a police vehicle during a protest after Friday prayers in Srinagar. Mukhtar Khan / AP Photo
    Kashmiri protesters throw stones at a police vehicle during a protest after Friday prayers in Srinagar. Mukhtar Khan / AP Photo
  • Tibetan Buddhist monks, wait to collect boiling milk, to distribute to devotees who are participating in special religious prayers, attended by Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama during the Kalachakra event at Bodhgaya. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP
    Tibetan Buddhist monks, wait to collect boiling milk, to distribute to devotees who are participating in special religious prayers, attended by Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama during the Kalachakra event at Bodhgaya. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP

Inside India: January 5, 2017

Fatima Al Marzouqi

January 05, 2017

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