In Pics: India This Week

A farmer carries a harvested paddy in a paddy field on the outskirts of Guwahati. 

(AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Beyond the headlines and behind the scenes, The Quint brings you a snapshot of India this week, from 25 to 31 May 2019.

Children returning from school walk through a dried pond on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Jammu. 

Smoke rises from a pine forest on the foothills of the Himalaya near Palampur, about 48 kilometers south of Dharmsala.

Guests watch the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi, who took oath for a second term as India’s prime minister at the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. 

A Kashmiri boy dives into a stream to cool off on the outskirts of Srinagar. 

A Kashmiri boy reads verses from the Holy Quran inside the shrine of Sufi saint Shiekh Abdul Qadir Jeelani during the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Srinagar. 

A man uses a torn portion of carton box while to protect himself from heat as he waits to cross a road on a hot summer afternoon in Hyderabad. 

Fishermen at work on a country boat near a paddy field on the outskirts of Guwahati. 

Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray as a head priest displays a relic believed to be of the Prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal shrine, in Srinagar.

Cricket fans get a haircut done to cheer for team India ahead of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, in Mumbai. 

Sikh devotees take a dip in the holy Sarovar at the Golden Temple on the occasion of ‘Gurta Gaddi Diwas’ of Guru Hargobind Ji, the sixth Sikh Guru, in Amritsar. 

A Muslim labourer holds a prayer bead as he waits for a work on a pavement in Mumbai. 

A milkman walks on a deserted road on the second day of curfew imposed to maintain law and order problem following the killing of most wanted militant and Commander-in-Chief of Ansar Gazwatul Hind Zakir Musa, in Srinagar. 

A woman carrying a child uses a part of her sari to shield themselves from sun on a hot summer day in Hyderabad. 

An exile Tibetan boy stands near strings of prayer flags as he waits for his mother in Dharmsala.

Mourners attend a candlelight march in tribute to the victims of a deadly fire in Surat, in Ahmadabad.