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Devotees carry a statue of the Hindu
elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, for immersion in the
sea, on the last day of "Ganesh Chaturthi", in Mumbai September 14,
2008. Clay statues of Ganesh are made two to three months before
this popular religious festival in India. The idols are taken
through the streets in a procession accompanied with dancing and
singing, to be immersed in a river symbolizing a ritual sendoff on
his journey towards his home. (REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe)
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A devotee watches an idol of the Hindu
elephant god Ganesh, sinking, after it was immersed in the Sabarmati
river on the last day of "Ganesh Chaturthi" in the western Indian
city of Ahmedabad, September 14, 2008. (REUTERS/Amit Dave)
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A rhinoceros which strayed in Kalcheni
village, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) west of Gauhati, India,
Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008, hides from wildlife officials. More than 100
wildlife officials tracked the animal using its radio collar after
it strayed from the Assam state's Manas National Park on Sept. 1,
but could not capture it until Sunday, fearing that if they
tranquilized it in the marshy area it could drown. (AP Photo/Anupam
Nath)
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An artisan gives finishing touches to an
idol of the Hindu Goddess Durga at a workshop in the northeastern
Indian city of Siliguri September 20, 2008. The idols will be used
during the Durga Puja festival, a popular religious event for Hindu
Bengalis. In Hindu mythology, Durga symbolises power and the triumph
of good over evil. (REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri)
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People carry earthen water pots as they
take part in a Jhulelal Chaliha procession in the western Indian
city of Ahmedabad September 6, 2008. Thousands of people took part
in the 40 day long fasting festival of the Sindhi community,
Jhulelal Chaliha, that ended on Saturday with a colourful procession
of earthen pots carried by male and female devotees on their heads.
(REUTERS/Amit Dave)
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An Indian Border Security Force (BSF)
soldier holds position inside a bulletproof vehicle during an
encounter at Chinor village on the outskirts of Jammu August 27,
2008. Suspected Muslim militants who slipped across the border from
Pakistan into Indian Kashmir killed at least two civilians and an
army officer in the Hindu-majority region of Jammu earlier that day,
police said. (REUTERS/Amit Gupta)
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Protestors challenge the police during a
victory rally in Jammu, India, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. Hindus on
Sunday suspended their two-month-old protest over allotment of land
to a Hindu trust to build facilities for pilgrims in the Indian
portion of Kashmir, which had triggered some of the worst violence
in the region in more than a decade, officials said. (AP
Photo/Channi Anand)
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A policeman throws stones at protestors
during a victory rally in Jammu, India, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. (AP
Photo/Channi Anand)
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Catholic nuns from the Missionaries of
Charity order sing hymns for a special prayer during the eleventh
anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa in the eastern Indian city
of Kolkata September 5, 2008. Mother Teresa was a Nobel Peace
Prize-winning nun who died in 1997, and was beatified by Pope John
Paul II in 2003 at the Vatican. (REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw)
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A damaged church, seen in the village of
Raikia, India, after it was allegedly stormed by Hindu
fundamentalists, on August 31, 2008. Indian authorities insisted
they had halted deadly clashes between Hindus and Christians in the
east of the country that have exposed it to stinging criticism. At
least 10 people have died and thousands have fled their homes as a
result of the violence in the coastal state of Orissa, with the
Catholic church accusing police of failing to protect defenceless
priests and nuns. (DESHAKALYAN CHOWDHURY/AFP/Getty Images)
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A Theyyam dancer waits to perform during
festivities marking the start of the annual harvest festival of
"Onam" in the southern Indian city of Kochi September 2, 2008. The
10-day long festival is celebrated annually in India's southern
coastal state of Kerala to symbolise the return of King Mahabali to
meet his beloved subjects. (REUTERS/Sivaram V)
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Monsoon rains have caused a great deal of
flooding throughout low-lying regions of India. Here, villagers wade
through a flooded road near Mithapur village, 67 km (42 miles) west
of Ahmedabad, September 19, 2008. (REUTERS/Amit Dave)
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A man is airlifted onto an Indian Air
Force helicopter at a flood-affected village in the eastern Indian
state of Bihar September 3, 2008. The floods have forced more than
three million people from their homes, destroyed 250,000 acres of
farmland and killed over 150 people. (REUTERS/Indian Defence
Ministry)
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A flood-affected man waits for food in a
flood relief camp at Jankinagar village of Purniya district in the
eastern Indian state of Bihar, September 6, 2008. Authorities
battling a massive deluge in Bihar had issued public warnings of
more floods to come and asked villagers not to return home from
temporary shelters yet. (REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri)
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Refugees from flooded areas extend their
hands to fetch food packets distributed by National Disaster Relief
Force (NDRF) personnel at Raghunathpur area, Madhepura district of
India's northeastern state of Bihar, on September 5, 2008. Rescue
workers in flood-hit northern India have brought over 800,000 people
to safety, but tens of thousands more were still believed to be
trapped, officials said. (DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Workers arrange bottles of drinking water
before an air-drop in flood-affected areas at Purniya air force
station in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, September 3, 2008.
(REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri)
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Muslim women react to the camera at a
makeshift flood relief camp in Araria district town in the eastern
Indian state of Bihar, September 7, 2008. (REUTERS/Rupak De
Chowdhuri)
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A Hindu woman has her hand painted with
henna during the Teej festival in the northern Indian city of
Allahabad September 2, 2008. Hindu women fast and pray for the good
health and long life of their husbands during the Teej festival.
(REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash)
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Forestry workers look on as a male Royal
Bengal Tiger leaps off a boat into the water after being released
back into the wild in The Chamta Forest District of The Sunderbans,
in India, on September 4, 2008. The tiger was declared fit for
release by veterinarians after it was recently rescued from a nearby
village. (HO/AFP/Getty Images)
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A mask is shown being put on the back of
honey collector Madhusudhan Mondal's head, in Bali, a village in the
Sundarbans, India, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. The Sundarbans forest, a
remote tangle of unforgiving islands dangling off the eastern edge
of India, is home to perhaps the world's largest population of
tigers, prone to attacking humans, as well as 4 million people who
are among the poorest in India. Locals believe that tigers do not
attack humans from the front and wear masks on the back of their
heads in the hope of warding them off. (AP Photo/Gautam
Singh)
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The Satellite Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft,
India's first moon mission craft is seen from behind glass at the
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) center in Bangalore on
September 18, 2008. Chandrayaan-1, which has almost reached its
final stages of preparation before its shipment to its launch centre
at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR), in Sriharikota.(DIBYANGSHU
SARKAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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A view of the illuminated Golden Temple,
Sikhs holiest shrine, in Amritsar, India, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008.
This year, Sikhs mark the 404th anniversary of the installation of
the Guru Granth Sahib, the sacred book of the Sikhs. (AP Photo/Aman
Sharma)
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Indian Hindu devotees pay their respects
after pouring milk water onto an idol of Hindu God Lord Krishna at
the Shivala temple in Amritsar, on August 24, 2008, on the occasion
of the "Janmashtami" festival, which marks the birth of Lord
Krishna. Devotional songs and dances mark the celebrations of the
festival all over northern India. (NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty
Images)
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Hindu devotees, try to form a human
pyramid to break an earthen pot filled with honey, milk and curd, as
part of festivities to celebrate Janmashthmi, or the birth
anniversary of Lord Krishna, in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Aug. 24,
2008. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
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Young Indian devotees of Hindu God Lord
Krishna attempt to make a seven-tier human pyramid in the
'dahi-handi' (curd-pot) contest in Mumbai on August 24, 2008, as
part of celebrations of "Janmashtami" which marks the birth of Hindu
God Lord Krishna. Scores of Hindu devotees of Lord Krishna partake
in the dahi-handi celebration during which a large earthenware pot
is filled with milk, curds, butter, honey and fruits and suspended
from a height of between 20 to 40 feet. Sporting young men and boys
come forward to claim this prize by constructing a human pyramid
till the pyramid is tall enough to enable the topmost person to
reach the pot and claim the contents after breaking it. (PAL
PILLAI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Engineers prepare to roll-out the Spark,
one of General Motors Corp's passenger vehicles, at the company's
new plant in Talegaon, about 160 km (99 miles) northeast of Mumbai
September 2, 2008. General Motors Corp's most important priority is
to turn around its North American business and it will continue
investments in emerging markets, its chief operating officer said on
Tuesday. (REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe)
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A relative of a bomb blast victim sits
next to their body at a cremation ground in New Delhi September 14,
2008. Police officers trawled slums and criminal hideouts in India's
capital on Sunday rounding up suspects after serial bombings in the
city a day earlier killed at least 21 people and wounded nearly 100.
At least five bombs exploded in quick succession in crowded markets
and streets in the heart of New Delhi on Saturday night.
(REUTERS/Adnan Abidi)
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A woman works in a rice paddy near
Singur, about 50 km (31 miles) north of the eastern Indian city of
Kolkata August 27, 2008. (REUTERS/Parth Sanyal)
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Activists of the People for Animals (PFA)
an NGO hold two Dwarf tortoises, which were rescued from a resident
in Guwahati on September 18, 2008. The pair were later released into
the the Dighalipukhuri pond in Guwahati, the capital city of India?s
northeastern state of Assam. (BIJU BORO/AFP/Getty Images)
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People fish for wood for domestic use at
the Naraj barrage on the Kathjodi River in the eastern Indian state
of Orissa, Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. The flood situation in Orissa
worsened as the government launched a massive evacuation operation
to shift the residents of low-lying areas to safer places, according
to a news agency. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)
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Kashmiri Muslim protesters shout
pro-freedom slogans during an anti-India protest in Srinagar
September 19, 2008. Thousands of Muslims demonstrators shouting
anti-India slogans took to streets in Kashmir's main city on Friday
and resumed protests against New Delhi's rule in the disputed
region. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli)
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A bull and other pedestrians walk past a
computer supermarket in New Delhi September 19, 2008.
(REUTERS/Desmond Boylan)
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Performers dressed as tigers take part in
Pulikali, or tiger dance, during festivities in Trichur city, in the
southern Indian state of Kerala, September 15, 2008. The ceremony
was organised to mark the end of the annual harvest festival,
"Onam". (REUTERS/Sivaram V)
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A model presents a creation by Indian designer
Anamika Khanna on the fourth day of the HDIL India Couture Week in
Mumbai on September 19, 2008. India is hosting its first ever haute
couture week showcasing over six days, 11 leading designers in a
celebration of the country's rich heritage in bespoke fashion. But
unlike the bank-breaking, impossible-to-wear creations on show twice
a year in Paris that are not even intended for the high street,
Indian couturiers say they are offering wearable made-to-order
clothes at a realistic price.(SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images)