In Photos: India This Week (27 May - 2 June)

A person drives an auto rickshaw through heavy rains in Agartala, 1 June 2017. (Photo: Reuters/Jayanta Dey)

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

Indian children playing inside the deserted illegally operated slaughter house as it has been closed by state Government in Allahabad, 29 May 2017. (Photo: AP/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Mourners with posters and flowers wait outside for bodies of Everest climbers, Paresh Chandra Nath and Gautam Ghosh at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International airport in Kolkata, 1 June 2017. (Photo: AP/Bikas Das)

Kashmiri boatman paddles his Shikara as sun sets over Dal Lake in the outskirts of Srinagar, Kashmir, 1 June 2017. (Photo: AP/Dar Yasin)

Children wearing skeleton masks participate in an awareness rally on World No Tobacco Day, in Kolkata, 31 May 2017. (Photo: AP/Bikas Das)

Shepherds graze flocks of sheep and goats in a dried wheat field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, 27 May 2017. (Photo: Reuters/Amit Dave)

A worker operates a hydraulic press machine at a workshop manufacturing flanges for automobiles in Mumbai, 29 May 2017. (Photo: Reuters/Shailesh Andrade)

Female porters carry a holy woman from Jain community through a street to collect food from local residents living in nearby areas, during an early morning in Ahmedabad, 31 May 2017. (Photo: Reuters/Amit Dave)

A worker carries coal in a basket in an industrial area in Mumbai, India 31 May 2017. (Photo: Reuters/Shailesh Andrade)  

Vishnu Limbachiya, a hair artist, styles the hair of a man while wearing a blindfold at a park in Ahmedabad, India 31 May 2017. (Photo: Reuters/Amit Dave)

A person drives an auto rickshaw through heavy rains in Agartala, India 1 June 2017. (Photo: Reuters/Jayanta Dey)

Crates used to transport fruits and vegetables are seen stacked at an empty wholesale market in Pimpalgaon, India 2 June 2017. (Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui) 

Muslims offer the first Friday prayers of the holy fasting month of Ramadan inside Jamia Masjid mosque in Srinagar 2 June 2017. (Photo: Reuters/Danish Ismail)

Exiled Tibetans rally to condemn the deaths of approximately 150 people who immolated themselves to protest against what they say is the illegal occupation of Tibet by the Chinese, in New Delhi, 29 May 2017. (Photo: Reuters/Cathal 

Police detain an activist from the All India Democratic Students Organisation during a demonstration to abolish no-detention policy and reintroduce the pass-fail system in the schools of West Bengal state, in Kolkata, 29 May 2017. (Photo: Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri)

Check out all the photo essays in the ‘India This Week’ series.