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A Hindu priest is in a pot of water and make offerings to the fire while performing "Parjanya Varun Yagam", a special prayer for rain in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Hindus believe that prayer soothes the god Varuna, who favors the rain, if you perform the ritual.

A mahout is between elephants participating in the festivities on the occasion of the annual harvest festival of Onam in a temple on the outskirts of the southern city of Kochi.

A man takes a nap on a bed being carried by the cycle rickshaw in Amritsar.

An Indian participant to a balancing bike competition during 71st Rural Olympics in 2006 in the village of Kila Raipur, in the northern Indian state of Punjab. The games are a mix of cultural events, including horse racing, Kabaddi, loading and unloading the truck and trailer and control as well as musical and theatrical presentations and sports.

Indians try to repair a taxi in a submerged in water to Mumbai street. Financial and entertainment capital of India has received a deluge overnight monsoon rains that left streets and homes flooded.

An Indian boy carries Mahisasura leader, who was killed by the goddess Durga in Hindu mythology, after the immersion of idols in the river Mahananda during the Dusshera or Vijaya Dashami Festival, the final day of the festival of Durga Puja, Siliguri.

Indian travelers through a rain shower in Hyderabad. Monsoon rains are a key factor for global commodities markets, strengthening the production of various crops in India, which could help alleviate the third largest Asian economy in its battle with high food prices .

Indians sitting near the promenade as dark clouds gather on the horizon of the city of Mumbai. Agriculture in India gets 60 percent of its rain and a bad monsoon can spell financial disaster 235 million farmers in the country.

Indian Hindu faithful form a human pyramid to break the Dahi Handi, the curd-pot, suspended in the air during celebrations of Janmashtami, marking the birth of the Hindu god Krishna. Hindu men and children are rewarded for building a human pyramid until it is high enough for the tallest man to reach the pot and claim the contents after breaking it.

An India against Corruption (IAC) activist takes portraits of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (in blue turban) and the Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on his buttocks and feet during a protest in New Delhi.

A riot policeman with a fellow climbing a wall decorated with movie posters, while taking positions during a violent protest in Gurgaon, a suburb of New Delhi Indian police.

A man works on a sculpture called "Mountain of India" because of oranges and lemons, February 15, 2013 in Menton, on the French Riviera, before the start of the "Lemon Festival" (lemon carnival) . The theme of this 80th edition, February 16 to March 6, 2013, is "The World Tour is 80 days" (80 days around the world).

Workers remove kites tangled in power lines after the end of the season kite in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.

A villager balance your bike on a boat crossing the river in the village gupti Bhitarkanika in the Indian state of Orissa. A plan to form a joint development bank BRICS emerging world's most powerful struggle to take off and fight to match the experience of the World Bank, said the president of the World Bank Robert Zoellick.

Children are immersed in the sea in a fishing port to cool on a hot day in the south Indian city of Chennai. Temperatures in Chennai on Friday reached 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit), according to information published on the website of the Department of Metrology India.

Indian Culture

A Truly Indian Cultural

Added on 5/17/2013

A Sufi Kalandar (wandering ascetic) performs an act of torture itself devotion to annual Urs (death anniversary) of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer. Also known as Gharib Nawaz or "benefactor of the poor," established the Chisti order in the Indian sub-continent and is the most famous Sufi saint of the Chishti order in the region.

A vendor poses with bunches of live frogs for sale at a market in Dimapur April 3, 2013. Frogs, which are a delicacy among the Nagas northern states of India tribes are found in abundance in Nagaland between April and October and part of the tribal population in the state to earn a living by catching frogs and sell market.

An Indian dancer performs during the press presentation of the exhibition "India" in Frankfurt. The program, produced at a cost of 7 million euros and 75 dancers, artists and musicians will travel to Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Brussels.

Indigenous to the Arabian sea at high tide youth jumps, while the landmark India Gate monument is seen in the background, in Mumbai.

An Indian boy plays in a water street records after a monsoon season in Delhi. The monsoon rains, a key to the economy of India, covered the whole country, but was 23 percent below average, officials because of fears of its impact on the production of two states grain.

Indian Avathar costumed interpreters expected during the final procession of the eleven-day traditional festival of "Bonalu ', a ritual offering to the goddess Sri Mahakali Akkanna Madanna Mahankali Temple in Hyderabad. Goddess is honored mostly by women during Bonalu festival with offerings of food and dancing.

Children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi arrive on a bus to attend March 1 peace in Kolkata. Four one hundred eighty-five children of training resources and care for children, a charity for single mothers and children living without support in the stations participated in a peace March on Sunday in an attempt to create a Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed as Mahatma Gandhi.

Children cycling on his return home after a dip in a canal in the Chachura village in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

A woman pumps mustard oil on the right ear of a child of two years, according to his mother who suffers from Mithua or protein-energy malnutrition (PEM), along a road in the city of Kaudihar Northern State of Uttar Pradesh in India

A member of the audience waves of Japanese American illusionist parasite "Cyril" as he toured in what seems to be suspended in the air from a lamppost in Mumbai. The waterfall is part of the promotional tour for a new TV show with Cyril.

A child with his body painted like a tiger waiting between racks before during the festivities on the occasion of the annual harvest festival of Onam in the south Indian city of Kochi. The 10-day festival held each year in the state length on the south coast of India, Kerala to commemorate the return of King Mahabali to meet his beloved subjects.

Ask visitors with an employee dressed as a dinosaur theme park Adlabs Imagica "in Khopoli, about 75 km (46 miles) from Mumbai April 20, 2013. Adlabs Imagica a theme park of 80 hectares built at a cost of about $ 294 million, was opened to the public April 18, 2013. The park has 21 attractions, including rides, movies and shows from the Bollywood and Indian mythology.

India Hindu gods Hanuman dress poses during a religious procession on the basis of Durgiana temple of Amritsar 24 October 2012 on the occasion of the Hindu festival of Dussehra. At the end of the Navratri (nine nights) Festival, Dussehra symbolizes the victory of good over evil in Hindu mythology. On the night of Dussehra, fire crackers and stuffed effigies of Ravana are burnt in an open field across the country.

Participants try to keep a bull during a traditional bull taming festival called "Jallikattu" in Palamedu near Madurai, around 500 km south of Chennai, January 15, 2013. Jallikattu is a bull taming sport played in Tamil Nadu as part of Pongal celebrations.

A worker carrying tomatoes walking along a road near a vegetable wholesale market in Old Delhi on May 14, 2013. Inflation in India slowed for the third consecutive month in April to 4.89 percent, a comfortable level seen for the central bank to persist with monetary easing to boost the ailing economy.

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Added on 5/17/2013

An Indian Muslim devotee, a pilgrimage to the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Urs, performs a trick during a procession in Ajmer in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan on May 11, 2013. Urs is an annual festival which has been held for more than six days in Ajmer, marking the anniversary of the death of the Chishti Sufi saint.

Hindu Sadhu (holy man) raises her adopted son in a headstand yoga on the banks of Sangam in Allahabad.

School children with painted Indians to participate in the "Save Tiger campaign" faces, organized by the magazine of the environment "Sanctuary Asia" and "Children in Bangalore tiger conservation program.

A total of 3939 students are a sign of female in an attempt to claim a record for the most feminine structure in ITM Gwalior campus.

A mahout receives a sprinkling of the elephant before the tourist season when offering rides to visitors in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, about 50 km from Guwahati.

Indigenous activists People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) suggest using the green body paint with placards during a protest in Hyderabad.

An Indian Hindu devotee dressed as a monkey takes part in a procession outside the Hanuman temple in New Delhi April 25, 2013 on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti, the birthday of the Hindu monkey god. Hanuman, known for its strength, is worshiped for his unflinching devotion to Lord Rama and is known for his devotion to the deity.

No Indian Hindu devotee falls on burning coal, while taking his daughter for a career in the coal Maariamma Mela Maa Jalandhar.

Workers are transported in a truck during your lunch break at the construction site of a commercial and residential complex on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.