In Pictures: India This Week ( 2 Jan 2016 to 8 Jan 2016)

A man walks along a road during the season’s first major snowfall in Srinagar on January 4. (Photo: Reuters/Danish Ismail)

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

A volunteer of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) stands on a tree as others arrive to attend a conclave on the outskirts of Pune on January 3, 2016. (Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)

Shi’ite Muslims try to cross a barricade during a protest against the execution of cleric Nimr al-Nimr, who was executed along with others in Saudi Arabia, in front of Saudi Arabia embassy in New Delhi on January 4, 2016. (Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi)

Sailers take part in the rehearsal for the Republic Day parade on a foggy winter morning in New Delhi on January 6, 2016. (Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi)

A camel getting fur cut by Japanese hairdresser, before Camel Festival in Bikaner on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

A pair of Olive Ridley Turtles mate at the Bay of Bengal Sea near the Rushikulya River mouth beach in Ganjam district, Odisha on Sunday, January 3, 2016. Olive Ridley turtles congregate here in large numbers for their annual nesting of eggs. (Photo: AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)  

A student with visual disabilities pays tributes to a statue of Louis Braille in Hyderabad on Monday, January 4, 2016. Jan 4 marks the birth anniversary of Braille, the French inventor who devised a system used by the blind for reading and writing which has since been adapted to almost every known language. (Photo: AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

A group of men, who got their heads shaved in a symbol of mourning for the Indian soldiers who were killed in the attack on the Pathankot air base, offer tributes at an event to pay homage in New Delhi on Wednesday, Jan 6, 2016. (Photo: AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

A view of Major fire that broke out at Naya Nagar, Dharavi in Mumbai on Monday, January 4, 2016. (Photo: PTI)

A young pilgrim on his way to the annual holy dip at Gangasagar, looks on as he rests at a transit camp in Kolkata on Wednesday, January 6, 2016. Thousands of Hindu pilgrims are expected to take the annual holy dip at Gangasagar, where the Ganges River reaches the Bay of Bengal, on the auspicious Makar Sankranti festival day that falls on January 14. (Photo: AP Photo/ Bikas Das)

A man is silhouetted against the evening sun as he works on electric cables in preparation for the upcoming ‘Magh Mela’ festival in Allahabad on Thursday, January 7, 2016. (Photo: AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

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