Incredible images from India

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Incredible images from India
AFP PHOTO/ Punit Paranjpe
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A farmer with his bulls takes part in the 21st
Bull Race at a paddy field in Canning village, in
the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.
REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
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Indian Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB)
mechanics repairs electrical wires in Amritsar on
August 4, 2012. Consumers in Punjab are facing
one of the worst power crisis situations in the
state.
AFP PHOTO/ NARINDER NANU
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An Indian child plays in a water-logged street
after a spell of monsoon rain in New Delhi. The
monsoon rains, a key to India's economy, covered
the entire country on July 11 but it was 23
percent below average.
AFP PHOTO/SAJJAD HUSSAIN
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Indian artist Harwinder Singh Gill displays a
miniature model of the Olympic stadium with flags
of the 204 participating countries along with the
Olympics rings and torch plus the words 'Best
Wishes For India, in Amritsar.
AFP PHOTO/NARINDER NANU
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An Indian photographer lifts a fake tiger used as
a prop at the Table Top tourist destination at
Saputara, some 400 km from Ahmedabad.
AFP PHOTO / Sam PANTHAKY
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A Kashmiri vegetable vendor takes a nap in his
boat at Dal Lake in Srinagar July 30, 2012. 
REUTERS/Danish Ismail
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Indian artists dressed up as Avathar wait during
the final procession of the eleven day
traditional festival of 'Bonalu', a ritual
offering to the goddes MahaKali at Sri Akkanna
Madanna Mahankali Temple in Hyderabad.
AFP PHOTO / Noah SEELAM
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An Indian vendor looks at a performer dressed as
an alien during a promotion for the Hindi film
Joker directed by Shirish Kunder in Mumbai on
July 26, 2012
AFP PHOTO/ STR
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A Hindu priest sits in a cauldron of water and
makes offerings to a fire while performing the
"Parjanya Varun Yagam", a special prayer for
rain, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
Hindus believe the prayer appeases the god
Varuna, who favours them with rain if the ritual
is performed. 
REUTERS/Amit Dave
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A mahout moves an elephant to higher ground as
villagers paddle with their belongings through
flood waters in the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary,
some 55 kms from Guwahati, the capital city of
the northeastern state of Assam.
AFP PHOTO/Biju BORO
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A member of the street-side audience waves at
American-Japanese illusionist "Cyril" as he
performs a stunt where he appears suspended in
the air from a lamp post in Mumbai. The stunt was
part of the promotional road show for a new TV
program featuring Cyril.
REUTERS/Vivek Prakash
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Indian artist Ramesh Sah shows his painted thumb
nail with a miniature portrait of former finance
minister and Indian presidential candidate Pranab
Mukherjee in Siliguri.
AFP PHOTO/Diptendu DUTTA
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A member of the audience waves at a rider
performing a stunt during the Red Bull X-Fighters
freestyle motocross motorbike event at India Gate
in New Delhi June 30, 2012.
REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
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A dead elephant is hoisted off the road after it
was hit by a truck on the Noida Expressway in New
Delhi on June 29, 2012. Another elephant was also
injured in the accident which brought traffic on
the expressway to a crawl.
AFP PHOTO/STR
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Members of audience try to cross over a barricade
to watch the Red Bull X-Fighters freestyle
motocross motorbike event at India Gate in New
Delhi June 30, 2012.
REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
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An Indian Myna holds a grasshopper in its beak to
feed chicks in a nest built inside the wall of an
underpass in Greater Noida on the outskirts of
New Delhi June 8, 2012. 
REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma
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A worker takes a nap beside a stack of iron pipes
at the construction site of a commercial complex
in the southern Indian city of Chennai . Poor
infrastructure acts as a bottleneck to India's
economic growth that slowed to 5.3 percent in the
quarter ended March, the weakest pace in nine
years. 
REUTERS/Babu
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A Hindu priest walks through the main entrance of
a temple of Lord Hanuman, a Hindu God, in New
Delhi July 2, 2012. 
REUTERS/B Mathur
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An Indian Sadhu (Hindu holy man) performs a
routine exercise in Kolkata, 10 January 2006.
Thousands of Hindu pilgrims have started to
converge for the Gangasagar Mela which will be
held 14 January, on the occasion of Makar
Sankranti, a holy day of the Hindu calendar.
PHOTO- AFP
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Ramu, a 7-months-old monkey scratches as he rests
with his dog friend Kalu in Sonahat, an Indian
village on the border with Bangladesh. Indian
troops on the border with Bangladesh are getting
some unusual help in their patrols as Ramu,
sitting on his canine friend's back accompanies
troops each day on patrol.
PHOTO- AFP
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