IMAGE: Doesn't the sadhu feel cold as he rests in a temporary shelter at a transit camp at Babughat in Kolkata on the way to Gangasagar island for the upcoming Makar Sankranti festival. Photograph: ANI Photo
IMAGE: Indian Navy soldiers rehearse for the Republic Day parade on a cold winter morning in New Delhi. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
IMAGE: A boy bathes at a roadside municipal tap on a cold winter morning in the old quarters of Delhi. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
IMAGE: A man wrapped in a blanket sleeps outside closed shops at a market in Delhi. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
IMAGE: A cat sleeps on a chair outside closed shops at a Delhi market. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
IMAGE: People stand around a bonfire to warm themselves on a cold winter day in Jalandhar. Photograph: ANI Photo
IMAGE: Passengers cover themselves with blankets as they wait to board a train at a railway station in Prayagraj. Photograph: ANI Photo
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