

Jumma Namaz at a park called Eidgah Maidan at Patharchapuri, Birbhum, West Bengal on 26 March 2021.

Devotees from the Matua community, a sect of lower caste Hindus, react during the 211th birth anniversary celebration of their spiritual leader, Sri Sri Harichand Thakur, at Thakurnagar village, around 65 kilometres north of Kolkata on 30 March 2022.

A family cooks food as an offering to the sun god on the day of Pongal festival, in Mumbai on 15 January 2020.

Shi'ite Muslims flagellate themselves during a Muharram procession in Kolkata on 20 August 2021.

Morning rituals at the deserted Gangasagar beach near the Kapil Muni temple, just a day after Makar Sankranti 2021. People’s fear to travel amidst the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in reducing the usual footfall of the Gangasagar Mela to one-fifth.

A woman lies prostrate in between railway tracks as part of Chhath Puja rituals, in Kolkata on 10 November 2021.