Incredible India

Devotees hang by a crane as they immerse an idol of the Hindu elephant god Ganesha, the deity of prosperity, in the waters of the Sabarmati River on the last day of the Ganesha Chaturthi festival in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad September 29, 2012. Ganesha idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing and later immersed in a river or the sea symbolising a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind. (INDIA - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A mahout sits in between elephants which are participating in festivities marking the annual harvest festival of Onam at a temple on the outskirts of the southern Indian city of Kochi August 29, 2012.

Indian Hindu devotees form a human pyramid to break the dahi-handi, curd-pot, suspended in the air during celebrations of Janmashtami, which marks the birth of Hindu God Lord Krishna, Mumbai on August 10, 2012. Hindu men and boys receive prize money by constructing a human pyramid till it is tall enough to enable the topmost person to reach the pot and claim the contents after breaking it.

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 July 1, 2012. Hindus believe the prayer appeases the god Varuna, who favours them with rain if the ritual is performed. 

An Indian child plays in a water-logged street after a spell of monsoon rain in New Delhi on July 12, 2012. The monsoon rains, a key to India's economy, covered the entire country on July 11 but it was 23 percent below average, officials said amid worries of its impact on two cereal-producing states.