In Pictures: India This Week (22 Oct to 28 Oct 2016)

Here are some of the best works of photojournalism from across India, this week.

Wrestlers fight during an amateur wrestling match inside a makeshift ring installed on a road organised by local residents as part of the Diwali celebrations in Kolkata. (Photo: Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri)

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Pigeons fly inside the Jama Masjid (Grand Mosque) in the old quarters of Delhi. (Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi)

A woman walks past semi-finished clay idols of the Hindu mythological characters ‘Dakinis’ and ‘Yoginis’, who will be worshipped along with goddess Kali, at a roadside workshop ahead of the Kali Puja festival in Kolkata. (Photo: Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri)

A forest guard provides water to an injured Asiatic elephant, who according to forest officials fractured his front-right leg late August while being chased by villagers, as it lies in a field in Avverahalli village on the outskirts of Bengaluru. (Photo: Reuters/ Abhishek N. Chinnappa)

Widows, who have been abandoned by their families, carry earthen lamps as they gather inside a temple to celebrate Diwali, organised by non-governmental organisation Sulabh International in Vrindavan. (Photo: Reuters/Jitendra Prakash)

Activists of Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, a right wing organisation promoting indigenous products, burn posters carrying photographs of Chinese President Xi Jinping, during a protest against Chinese products in New Delhi. There have been protests against China-made goods and advocacy to promote indigenous products in several parts of the country. (Photo: AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

A supporter of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) plays a damru, a small two-headed drum, during an election campaign rally addressed by the party’s chief Mayawati on the occasion of the death anniversary of Kanshi Ram, founder of BSP, in Lucknow, 9 October, 2016. (Reuters/Pawan Kumar)

A school boy holds an INSAS (Indian Small Arms System) assault rifle on display during a programme organised by Assam Rifles, a paramilitary force, to attract youth in joining the force at their headquarters in Agartala. (Photo: Reuters/Jayanta Dey)

Border villagers carry belongings to safer places after persistent firing from the Pakistan side near Line of Control at Khour village, in Akhnoor, about 55 kilometers from Jammu. (Photo: AP Photo/Channi Anand)

A young Indian boy, in khaki shorts, joins other members of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), to participate in a Vijayadashami programme wearing the organisation’s new uniform in Bangalore. (Photo: AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

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