In Photos: India This Week (25 March 2017 to 31 March 2017)

Women dressed in traditional costumes ride motorbikes as they attend celebrations to mark the Gudi Padwa festival, the beginning of the New Year for Maharashtrians, in Mumba. (Photo: Reuters/Shailesh Andrade)

Beyond the headlines and behind the scenes, The Quint brings you a snapshot of India this week.

A man carries schoolchildren on his bicycle on a road in Srinagar. (Photo: Reuters/Danish Ismail)

Fishermen paddle their boats as they carry their family members in the waters of Vembanad Lake in Kochi. (Photo: Reuters/Sivaram V)

A Muslim meat shop owner looks on outside his closed shop in Gurugram, Haryana. (Photo: Reuters/Cathal McNaughton)

Devotees holding swords dance during the annual Kodungalloor Bharani festival in the town of Kodungalloor in Kerala. (Photo: Reuters/Abhishek N Chinnappa)

Kashmiri villagers attend the funeral of a local terrorist, Tauseef Ahmed Wagay, during his funeral at Yaripora, 60 kms south of Srinagar. Thousands attended the funeral a day after he was killed along with three civilians in a gunbattle with government forces in Kashmir. (Photo: AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

A Tibetan monk stands outside his room at Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamsala. (Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi)

A girl fills metal pitchers with drinking water from a tubewell outside a temple in Ahmedabad. (Photo: Reuters/Amit Dave)

People rest beside a poster of Lord Shiva on a roadside in Kolkata. (Photo: Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri)

Check out all the photo essays in the ‘India This Week’ series.