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Friday, August 12, 2011

Many Faces Of INDIA


Rani Verma, 40, grieves the loss of her father-in-law in a train accident as she waits for his body outside a government mortuary in Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh state, India, Monday, July 11, 2011. Rescue workers pulled more bodies Monday from the mangled wreckage of the Kalka Mail passenger train that derailed in northern India. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)



A Kashmiri woman shelters her child from the rain by covering him with her veil during a heavy downpour in Srinagar, India, Friday, Aug. 4, 2006. Kashmir valley witnessed heavy rainfall Friday. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)


Kashmiri Ghulam Mohammed Matta looks on after he was beaten by police during a demonstration in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006. Hundreds of Muslims shouted slogans against the government after they were denied travel permits for the annual Haj pilgrimage, reportedly because of an administrative miscommunication. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)




A girl quenches her thirst with water droplets from a broken pipe in the eastern Indian city of Siliguri, Thursday, March 22, 2007. World Water Day is being observed across the world Thursday. (AP Photo/Tamal Roy)



A young Indian rag picker looks for recyclable spare parts at an automobile yard on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Wednesday, March 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

A relative of a member of the Gujjar community, a lower caste, who was killed when shots were filed by police looks on near the dead body, unseen, at Bayana town in the Bharatpur district of Rajasthan state, India, Thursday, May 29, 2008. Gujjars blocked major roads, burned car tires, and threw stones at police in several areas around New Delhi on Thursday in a continuation of protests in the country's north and west that left 39 people dead. Members of the Gujjar tribe threatened to shut down the capital unless the government agreed to reclassify them as members of the lowest caste so that they can benefit from government quotas. (AP Photo/Aman Sharma) 



A Kashmiri Muslim woman, with henna on her hands, grieves during the funeral procession of Indian Army soldier Shabir Ahmed Malik in Dab, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) Northeast of Srinagar, India, Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Malik was killed in an ongoing battle which has claimed seven other army soldiers and sixteen suspected rebels, Lt. Col. J.S. Brar of the Indian Army said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)





An leprosy infected woman waits for her turn to be treated by the volunteers of US based Arpan Global Charities (AGC), a medical volunteer organization, in Amritsar, India, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. AGC provides free medical services to the medically underserved populations of the world. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

A student gets his face painted with a message to fight against AIDS during a face painting competition in Ahmadabad, India, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. Roughly 2.5 million Indians are HIV-positive. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

An elderly woman begs for alms on a roadside in the old part of New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

A Kashmiri Muslim boy watches from the window of his house as protesters throw stones at Indian paramilitary soldiers during a protest in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Government forces fired warning shots and tear gas Wednesday to quell a third day of angry protests in Indian-controlled Kashmir stemming from the death of a teenage boy hit in the head by a police tear gas shell.(AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)






A masked Kashmiri shouts slogans during a protest at Barthana neighborhood in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. Relative calm prevailed in the restive Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir Wednesday after days of violent clashes between troops and Kashmiri Muslims but hundreds joined marches at many places in the region protesting Indian rule over the Himalayan region. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)


Tears roll down the cheeks of a Kashmiri Muslim woman as the head priest, unseen, displays the holy relic believed to be a hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammad, during special prayers to observe the Martyr Day of Hazrat Ali, cousin of Prophet Mohammed, on the 21st day of Ramadan at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Muslims across the world are observing the holy fasting month of Ramadan, where devout refrain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) 

An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard during curfew in central Srinagar, India, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Leaders of India's main political parties debated Wednesday whether to ease harsh security laws in Indian-controlled Kashmir as the government searched for a strategy to end months of increasingly violent protests in the region. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)




A worker smiles as he sorts mangoes at a wholesale market on the outskirts of Allahabad, India, Saturday, July 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)










Ruwaida Usmani, center in black dress, waits to receive her husband Faiz Usmani's body outside a hospital in Mumbai, India, Sunday, July 17, 2011. Faiz Usmani, a man picked up by police for questioning in connection with Wednesday's blasts that killed 19 people and injured 130 others, died Sunday. Usmani's family has alleged that he was tortured during questioning. Police have denied the charge but an investigation has been ordered. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)



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