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The best of 2017 by Hindustan Times photographers

2017's best moments from Hindustan Times photographers across India.

Updated on: Dec 30, 2017 5:00 PM IST

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Participants on the iconic Bandra-Worli sealink during the 2017 Mumbai marathon in January this year. (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)

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Participants on the iconic Bandra-Worli sealink during the 2017 Mumbai marathon in January this year. (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)

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Portrait of actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Mumbai’s Raheja Club. Siddiqui was in the news this year not just for his performances, but also his controversial memoir, ‘An Ordinary Life.’ (Aalok Soni / HT Photo)

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Portrait of actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Mumbai’s Raheja Club. Siddiqui was in the news this year not just for his performances, but also his controversial memoir, ‘An Ordinary Life.’ (Aalok Soni / HT Photo)

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Mukut Yadav, a mahout, sleeps in an elephant enclosure in Sangam Vihar, Delhi, where “Haathi wali Galli” is home to one of the last tuskers in the city. (Arun Sharma / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 30, 2017 5:00 PM

Mukut Yadav, a mahout, sleeps in an elephant enclosure in Sangam Vihar, Delhi, where “Haathi wali Galli” is home to one of the last tuskers in the city. (Arun Sharma / HT Photo)

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Nine-year-old Burhan Fayaz breaks into tears at the funeral of his friend Amir Nazir, a civilian who was killed during an encounter in Pulwama in March after being hit by a bullet in the neck. Thousands, including Burhan, attended the funeral in Begumbagh village, some four kilometres from the site of the gun battle where he was felled. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 30, 2017 5:00 PM

Nine-year-old Burhan Fayaz breaks into tears at the funeral of his friend Amir Nazir, a civilian who was killed during an encounter in Pulwama in March after being hit by a bullet in the neck. Thousands, including Burhan, attended the funeral in Begumbagh village, some four kilometres from the site of the gun battle where he was felled. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

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After 632 days, eight of nine tribals, who were killed on August 31, 2015 in Manipur’s Churachandpur village, were buried after an agreement between hill tribes and the state government. The bodies, which were kept in the town’s morgue for almost two years, were finally laid to rest after a mourning ceremony in May this year. (Ravi Choudhary / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 30, 2017 5:00 PM

After 632 days, eight of nine tribals, who were killed on August 31, 2015 in Manipur’s Churachandpur village, were buried after an agreement between hill tribes and the state government. The bodies, which were kept in the town’s morgue for almost two years, were finally laid to rest after a mourning ceremony in May this year. (Ravi Choudhary / HT Photo)

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Kolkata’s famous yellow taxi and the infamous hand rickshaw cross paths on a rainy October day. (Samir Jana / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 30, 2017 5:00 PM

Kolkata’s famous yellow taxi and the infamous hand rickshaw cross paths on a rainy October day. (Samir Jana / HT Photo)

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In Nandgaon, UP, the tradition of playing Holi, especially Laathmar Holi, attracts thousands of visitors from across the country in what is India’s most colourful festival. (Ajay Aggarwal / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 30, 2017 5:00 PM

In Nandgaon, UP, the tradition of playing Holi, especially Laathmar Holi, attracts thousands of visitors from across the country in what is India’s most colourful festival. (Ajay Aggarwal / HT Photo)

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In Mumbai, the smoke from a BMC fumigation exercise in a market in Sion becomes the perfect prop for a child with an umbrella. (Kunal Patil / HT Photo)

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In Mumbai, the smoke from a BMC fumigation exercise in a market in Sion becomes the perfect prop for a child with an umbrella. (Kunal Patil / HT Photo)

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Barack Obama, former President of the United States of America, 2009 – 2017, during a light moment at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi, India, on Friday, December 01, 2017. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 30, 2017 5:00 PM

Barack Obama, former President of the United States of America, 2009 – 2017, during a light moment at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi, India, on Friday, December 01, 2017. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

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Canadian pop icon Justin Bieber performed at the D.Y.Patil stadium, Nerul in Mumbai in May this year. Bieber lip-synced his way through most of the performance (about eight tracks out of 12), much to his audience’s disappointment. (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 30, 2017 5:00 PM

Canadian pop icon Justin Bieber performed at the D.Y.Patil stadium, Nerul in Mumbai in May this year. Bieber lip-synced his way through most of the performance (about eight tracks out of 12), much to his audience’s disappointment. (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)

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Vikas, 25, a sewage worker in Delhi. While the Supreme Court has criminalised entering sewers without safety gear even in emergency situations, the working environment for these sewer workers remains sordid. (Ravi Choudhary / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 30, 2017 5:00 PM

Vikas, 25, a sewage worker in Delhi. While the Supreme Court has criminalised entering sewers without safety gear even in emergency situations, the working environment for these sewer workers remains sordid. (Ravi Choudhary / HT Photo)

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A scene from a violent clash between students from the ABVP, AISA and other bodies in Delhi University in February. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

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A scene from a violent clash between students from the ABVP, AISA and other bodies in Delhi University in February. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

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Actor Alia Bhatt (L) and her father filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt share a joke at their home in Juhu, Mumbai in June. (Aalok Soni / HT Photo)

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Actor Alia Bhatt (L) and her father filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt share a joke at their home in Juhu, Mumbai in June. (Aalok Soni / HT Photo)

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Dressed in a red t-shirt, hand-painted with the words Birthday Boy, Mr. Molt strutted across the enclosure, swam, ate his birthday cake and frolicked with the other six Humboldts on July 21, 2017 at the Byculla Zoo in Mumbai. (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)

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Dressed in a red t-shirt, hand-painted with the words Birthday Boy, Mr. Molt strutted across the enclosure, swam, ate his birthday cake and frolicked with the other six Humboldts on July 21, 2017 at the Byculla Zoo in Mumbai. (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)

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A row of majestic Chinar trees grace autumn in Nishat Bagh in Srinagar. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

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A row of majestic Chinar trees grace autumn in Nishat Bagh in Srinagar. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

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Social activist Anna Hazare sits under a tree during on a day-long hunger strike for the implementation of the Lokpal Bill, after paying tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his birth anniversary at Rajghat in New Delhi on October 02, 2017. (Ajay Aggarwal / HT Photo)

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Social activist Anna Hazare sits under a tree during on a day-long hunger strike for the implementation of the Lokpal Bill, after paying tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his birth anniversary at Rajghat in New Delhi on October 02, 2017. (Ajay Aggarwal / HT Photo)

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In a year that has seen press freedom being the most compromised in India, journalist Gauri Lankesh’s cold-blooded murder had Bengaluru citizens come together to protest in solidarity on September 12. (Arijit Sen / HT Photo)

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In a year that has seen press freedom being the most compromised in India, journalist Gauri Lankesh’s cold-blooded murder had Bengaluru citizens come together to protest in solidarity on September 12. (Arijit Sen / HT Photo)

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Ramachandra Manjhi, 92, is a legendary Launda Naach artist– a remarkable folk art form from Bihar comprising songs, dance, comedy and theatre where men impersonate women in performances that last all night. For Manjhi, a resident of western Bihar’s Chhapra, transforming into a woman on stage is routine – one he has perfected since he was 12. (Sanjeev Verma / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 30, 2017 5:00 PM

Ramachandra Manjhi, 92, is a legendary Launda Naach artist– a remarkable folk art form from Bihar comprising songs, dance, comedy and theatre where men impersonate women in performances that last all night. For Manjhi, a resident of western Bihar’s Chhapra, transforming into a woman on stage is routine – one he has perfected since he was 12. (Sanjeev Verma / HT Photo)

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People enjoy being splashed by waves during high tide at Worli Seaface in Mumbai. (Kunal Patil / HT Photo)

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People enjoy being splashed by waves during high tide at Worli Seaface in Mumbai. (Kunal Patil / HT Photo)

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Local resident extinguish a fire that broke out at Garib Nagar in Bandra in Mumbai. The fire broke out when BMC officials were conducting an encroachment removal drive along Tansa pipeline, following a Bombay High Court order. (Kunal Patil / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 30, 2017 5:00 PM

Local resident extinguish a fire that broke out at Garib Nagar in Bandra in Mumbai. The fire broke out when BMC officials were conducting an encroachment removal drive along Tansa pipeline, following a Bombay High Court order. (Kunal Patil / HT Photo)

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Rahul Gandhi (third from left), the newly elected President of the Indian National Congress, seen with BJP’s LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj (centre) and PM Modi (front, right) during the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament attack at Parliament House in New Delhi on December 13, 2017. (Sushil Kumar / HT Photo)

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Rahul Gandhi (third from left), the newly elected President of the Indian National Congress, seen with BJP’s LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj (centre) and PM Modi (front, right) during the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament attack at Parliament House in New Delhi on December 13, 2017. (Sushil Kumar / HT Photo)

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A compounder treats a bird entangled in kite strings at the bird hospital in Jaipur. As residents celebrated Makar Sankranti, flying colourful kites on their terrace and balconies, bird injuries and deaths shot up. The hospital with 83 wards, established around 1950 and run by the Sthanakwasi Shrawak Sangh, opened its doors 24x7 during the time. (Himanshu Vyas / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 30, 2017 5:00 PM

A compounder treats a bird entangled in kite strings at the bird hospital in Jaipur. As residents celebrated Makar Sankranti, flying colourful kites on their terrace and balconies, bird injuries and deaths shot up. The hospital with 83 wards, established around 1950 and run by the Sthanakwasi Shrawak Sangh, opened its doors 24x7 during the time. (Himanshu Vyas / HT Photo)

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In Delhi’s Kathputli colony, an artist sits on his belongings outside his home, as the DDA went through with its demolition drive in the area. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 30, 2017 5:00 PM

In Delhi’s Kathputli colony, an artist sits on his belongings outside his home, as the DDA went through with its demolition drive in the area. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)

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Former Chambal dacoit Munna Singh with his rifle in his home in Bhind district. Now 70, the former dacoit surrendered in 1982 and now teaches children at the village school. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

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Former Chambal dacoit Munna Singh with his rifle in his home in Bhind district. Now 70, the former dacoit surrendered in 1982 and now teaches children at the village school. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

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After a dramatic pre-inauguration crash through a wall, the Magenta Line of the Delhi Metro opened to the general public on Christmas this year. The 12.64 km section connects Botanical Garden in Noida to Kalkaji Mandir in South Delhi and vastly improves travel time, providing relief to thousands of daily commuters. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 30, 2017 5:00 PM

After a dramatic pre-inauguration crash through a wall, the Magenta Line of the Delhi Metro opened to the general public on Christmas this year. The 12.64 km section connects Botanical Garden in Noida to Kalkaji Mandir in South Delhi and vastly improves travel time, providing relief to thousands of daily commuters. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)

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