A soldier from the Uttar Pradesh contingent takes part in celebrations marking India's Independence Day at Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar on August 15, 2017. This year marks 70 years since British India split into two nations—Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan—and millions were uprooted in one of the largest mass migrations in history. #

Forest guards chase away a rhino that strayed into a residential area after floods forced animals to escape the Kaziranga National Park in Nagaon district, in the northeastern state of Assam, India, on August 15, 2017. #

An Indian parent adjusts the costume of her child dressed as Lord Krishna for a competition during a Janmashtami celebration at a school in Agartala, the capital of northeastern state of Tripura on August 14, 2017. #

U.P. Yoddha's players pin down Patna Pirates Captain Pardeep Narwal, in green jersey, during their Vivo Pro Kabaddi league match in Ahmadabad, India, on August 13, 2017. #

Rinki Singh, 31, holds a photo of her daughter Aarushi, 6, who died in the intensive care unit of the Baba Raghav Das hospital in the Gorakhpur district of India, on August 14, 2017. At least 64 children died over six days at a government hospital in northern India that suffered oxygen shortages, officials said on August 12. Authorities have launched an inquiry into the causes of the oxygen disruption but denied reports that it had caused the deaths at the Baba Raghav Das hospital in Gorakhpur. #

A contingent of Indian paramilitary troopers stands in formation before their parade at Bakshi Stadium, where the authorities hold the main function, during India's Independence Day celebrations on August 15, 2017, in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. All businesses, schools and shops were closed and traffic remained off the roads following a strike call given by Kashmiri resistance leaders against India's Independence Day celebrations in Kashmir. Meanwhile a large number of government forces were deployed to prevent any incidents during the official celebrations. #

Indian volunteers for animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wear costumes depicting elephants during a protest in New Delhi on August 9, 2017. #

An Indian paramilitary trooper shoots stones with his slingshot at Kashmiri Muslim protesters during an anti-India protest on August 11, 2017, in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, India. Indian government forces used tear-gas shells to disperse dozens of Kashmiri Muslim protesters throwing stones at them during an anti-Indian protest in the Old City of Srinagar, after Friday prayers. #

Flood-affected villagers wait for relief material on a broken road washed away by floodwaters in Morigaon district, east of Gauhati in the northeastern state of Assam, on August 15, 2017. #

An Indian policeman gestures at the site of a landslide on August 14, 2017, which swept away two passenger buses along a highway in the Kotrupi area near Urla. Emergency workers were scouring the area hit by a massive landslide that swept two passenger buses into a deep gorge on August 13, killing at least 46 people in the mountainous northern state of Himachal Pradesh. #

Indian Bollywood actor Vindu Dara Singh (center) poses with wrestlers, or Pahalwan performers, during the filming of the video for a the Punjabi song "Kaun Hai Number One," directed by Vikas Dutta, on the outskirts of Amritsar on August 11, 2017. #

Indian students paint themselves with the colors of the Indian flag and take selfies as they celebrate Independence Day and Dahi Handi festivals at a college campus in Mumbai, India, on August 14, 2017. #

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he addresses the nation from the historic Red Fort during Independence Day celebrations in Delhi, India, on August 15, 2017. #

An Indian man urinates on a wall on the roadside in front of a poster for the Hindi film Toilet in Hyderabad on August 12, 2017. The Bollywood film Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (Toilet: a Love Story), which was released on August 11, is inspired by the true-life tale of one man's battle to build toilets in his village in rural India. #

Indian Hindu devotees take a vow before forming a human pyramid in a bid to reach and break a dahi handi (curd pot) suspended in the air during celebrations for the Janmashtami festival, which marks the birth of Hindu god Lord Krishna, in Mumbai on August 15, 2017. Participants receive prize money by constructing a human pyramid tall enough to enable the top person to reach the pot and claim the contents after breaking it. #

A devotee breaks a clay pot containing curd as others form a human pyramid during celebrations to mark the Hindu festival of Janmashtami in Mumbai, India, on August 15, 2017. #

Devotees participate in a procession transporting a giant idol of Hindu god Ganesha to a worship venue in preparation for the Ganesha Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, on August 12, 2017. #

An elephant of the Assam forest department wades through floodwaters in the Jakhalabandha area in Kaliabor, some 186 kilometers from Guwahati, the capital city of India's northeastern state of Assam, on August 13, 2017. #

Flood-affected villagers travel by boat in floodwaters in Morigaon district, east of Gauhati, in the northeastern state of Assam, on August 15, 2017. Heavy monsoon rains have unleashed landslides and floods that killed dozens of people in recent days and displaced millions more across northern India, southern Nepal, and Bangladesh. #

Holding human skulls and bones, farmers from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu stage a protest seeking immediate relief from the Indian government on August 9, 2017, in New Delhi, India. They are displaying skulls and bones of their brethren who they claim have committed suicide. There is a lot of distress among farmers in India who want higher returns for their agricultural produce and who say the Green Revolution has failed them. Tamil Nadu has suffered from a drought and suicide by farmers has taken on epidemic proportions. #

Indian girls wear tricolor bangles as they practice prior to taking part in Independence Day celebrations in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad, on August 15, 2017. #

The face of an unfinished idol of Hindu goddess Durga is wrapped with a plastic sheet to protect from rain at a studio in Kolkata, India, on August 8, 2017. The idols of the Hindu goddess are prepared ahead of the Durga Puja festival that will be celebrated in the last week of September. #

Indian members of the Maratha community in the state of Maharashtra cross a flyover as they take part in a rally in Mumbai on August 9, 2017. The Maratha Kranti Morcha silent protest is being held to demand employment quotas for the Maratha in state-run education institutions and government jobs, a minimum support price for farm produce, and amendments to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. #

Policemen use a water canon to disperse supporters of India's National Congress Party as they try to march toward the Indian parliament during a protest against the policies of Indian government in New Delhi, India, on August 10, 2017. #