In Pictures: India This Week (December 5 – December 11)

In Pictures | Beyond the headlines and behind the scenes, The Quint brings you a snapshot of India this week.

Brides sit for a group photo before a mass wedding hosted by a diamond trader in Surat on Sunday, where 151 young couples tied the knot. (Photo: AP/Ajit Solanki)

Beyond the headlines and behind the scenes, The Quint brings you a snapshot of India this week.

In this week’s edition, we bring you a mass wedding, Delhi’s Comic Con, Delhi’s winter mist, Kashmir’s first snowfall, tragedies in Chennai and Mumbai, and more.

Fans dressed as mythological characters pose for photographs at Delhi Comic Con on Saturday. Read The Quint’s take on the latest edition. (Photo: AP/Altaf Qadri)

Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel assemble to take part in a passing out parade in Humhama, on the outskirts of Srinagar on Friday. (Photo: Reuters/Danish Ismail)

A bird flies across a field during a foggy morning on the outskirts of New Delhi on Tuesday. (Photo: AP/Altaf Qadri)  

A train moves on snow covered railway tracks after season’s first snowfall, in Anantnag district of south Kashmir on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Soldiers display their skills during the 10th Reunion celebrations of Army Ordnance Corps in Secunderabad on Thursday. (Photo: IANS)

Cheteshwar Pujara jumps in the air as South Africa’s captain Hashim Amla, right, bats on day four of their fourth and final test cricket match against South Africa in New Delhi Sunday. (Photo: AP/Tsering Topgyal)

A woman cries as she stands on debris from her gutted hut after a fire occurred in a slum area in Mumbai. A warehouse fire swept through a slum in Mumbai on Monday, triggering a series of gas cylinder explosions. (Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)

A flood-affected couple sits along a flooded roadside under a picture of Jayalalithaa Jayaram, chief minister of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, in Chennai on Sunday. (Photo: Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee)

A fisherman paddles a country boat as he leaves for fishing as another man sits in an anchored boat in the river Brahmaputra in Guwahati on Thursday. (Photo: / Anupam Nath)  

A holyman meditates on the ghats of the River Ganga ahead of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit, in Varanasi, on Friday. (Photo: AP/Rajesh Kumar Singh)  

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