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Celebrating pride through fashion and protest against mob lynching: India this week
From fashion celebrating LGBT pride in Kolkata to the first monsoon rains in Mumbai; a roundup of top photos from across the country.
Updated on: Jun 30, 2019 1:07 PM IST
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Rintu walks the ramp during the Freedom of Expression fashion show in Kolkata, West Bengal. The “Freedom of Expression” show featured a group of transgender persons dressed as mythological characters from Indian epics. (Bikas Das / AP)
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A farmer sows seeds at a cotton field on the outskirts of Hyderabad, Telangana. India farmers have planted 14.7 million hectares with summer-sown crops, down almost 10% from the previous year, the farm ministry’s data showed this week, as weak monsoon rains delayed sowing in most parts of the country. (Mahesh Kumar A. / AP)
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A man clips a poster to a line, during a protest against the lynching of Tabrez Ansari on June 19 by a Hindu mob, in Kolkata, West Bengal. (Rupak De Chowdhuri / REUTERS)
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A fisherwoman winnows dust away from prawns laid out to dry at Worli village in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)
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A woman uses a hand pump to fill up a container with drinking water in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. (P. Ravikumar / REUTERS)
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Swans outside a pool on a hot summer day at Lodhi Garden, in Delhi. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT PHOTO)
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A man rides a bicycle on a rainy day at Titwala in Kalyan district of Maharashtra. (Rishikesh Choudhary / HT Photo)
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A boy looks at the smouldering remains of hutments which were burnt in a fire at Chamrang Road in Amritsar, Punjab. (ANI)
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A shepherd takes rest under a tree on a dried-up lake on the outskirts of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. (P. Ravikumar / REUTERS)
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A girl rejoices in the rain while holding an umbrella near Kingcircle in Mumbai, Maharashtra (Hemanshi Kamani / HT Photo)
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A child holds onto his mother’s sari during restoration work at the Red Fort, in Delhi. One of India’s most iconic monuments, the Red Fort, has received an elaborate facelift over the last year. Close to 400 post-Independence structures have been demolished, and the elegance of Mughal-era structures restored. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)
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Sadhus register for a pilgrimage on the first day of registration for Amarnath Yatra at Ram Mandir Base Camp, in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir. The 40-day pilgrimage to the cave shrine at an altitude of 3,880 metre in the south Kashmir Himalayas will commence from July 1. (Nitin Kanotra / HT Photo)
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Army personnel participate in a ‘cleanathon’ drive that was conducted by Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and saw participation from the Indian army, at Okhla Barrage, near Kalindi Kunj, in New Delhi. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)
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A demonstrator disrupts a diversion made from traffic cones during a protest by traders in Delhi’s Connaught Place against the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) over the pedestrianisation of the inner circle, in New Delhi. (Mohd Zakir / HT Photo)
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