In Pics: India This Week

Bum Nongrum, 91, smokes a beedi, tobacco rolled in an indigenously available leaf, at her house in Nongpoh, Meghalaya. 

(AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Beyond the headlines and behind the scenes, The Quint brings you a snapshot of India this week, from 11 to 17 May 2019.

A Muslim man sells halwa during the holy month of Ramadan in Mumbai.

Khasi tribal woman Lona Syngkli carries firewood in a basket swung around her head in Nongpoh, Meghalaya. 

A supporter of the Bharatiya Janata Party stands with his body painted as he attends an election rally addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in Mathurapur. 

Kashmiri villagers watch funeral procession of slain militant Naseer Pandith, in Pulwama, Kashmir. 

Kashmiri women participate in a protest against the rape of a 3-year-old girl from north Kashmir at Mirgund, outskirts of Srinagar.

A bolt of lighting illuminates the night sky as it rains in Jammu.

An elderly man reads the Communist Party of India-Marxist party newspaper pasted on a wall next to party candidate’s election posters in Kolkata.

Karbi tribal woman Aloti Tumung, 65, carries vegetables on her shoulder at a marketplace in Sonapur, east of Gauhati.

Temple priests perform ‘Ganga Aarti’ during dawn at Assi ghat, in Varanasi, 

A woman displays indelible ink mark on her finger after casting vote standing in front of a mural depicting a scene from the Mahabharata in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh.

A pedestrian takes shelter under a shrub during a sudden rainfall, in New Delhi.

A polling officer puts indelible ink mark on the index finger of a differently able voter, carried by another man, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. 

BJP supporters wave at the helicopter carrying Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he leaves after an election campaign rally ahead of the last phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Buxar.