In Pics: India This Week

Hindu devotee dries her clothes after taking a dip at Sangam in Prayagraj on Tuesday, 27 August.

(Photo: AP/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Beyond the headlines and behind the scenes, The Quint brings you a snapshot of India this week from 26 August to 30 August 2019.

Halimun Nessa, 32, stands with her children and displays a photograph of her husband Rahim Ali, who killed himself the day before his children were to appear in front of a NRC tribunal, in Barpeta, Assam. 

A pedestal fan is installed to quick-dry the idols as an elderly Indian artisan makes clay likenesses of Lord Ganesha ahead of Ganesh Chaturthi.

Devotees gather at a church as police personnel attempt to control the crowd during the annual festival of Annai Velankanni Church at Besant Nagar in Chennai.

Police officials direct people not to venture close to the shoreline of the Bay of Bengal after high tides measuring several feetshit the coast near Dhanushkodi, in Rameswaram on Monday.

Fishermen collect their catch on the banks of the River Ganga in Prayagraj on Tuesday.

Silhouettes seen against monsoon cloud formation at Marine Drive, in Mumbai on Thursday.

Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers patrol near International Border on the outskirts of Jammu on Thursday night.

Kashmiri children attend private classes at a teacher’s residence in Srinagar.

Sister Mary Prema Pierick, centre, Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, lights a candle on her birth anniversary.

Hindu devotee dries her clothes after taking a dip at Sangam in Prayagraj on Tuesday.

Kashmiri children play cricket outside a closed market in central Srinagar.

Commuters walk past flower vendors who have set up stalls beneath an old and dilapidated building in Kolkata. 

Boatmen take rest beneath a bridge at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna in Prayagraj.

Participants perform Yoga during an event to launch the Fit India Movement on National Sports Day, at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi on Thursday.

A Kashmiri man walks with a child as a paramilitary soldier stands guard during restrictions ahead of Friday prayers in Srinagar.