Mother India

Mothers are the backbone of India. Is there anything an Indian Ma will not do for her child? Glimpses of mothering across our great country on the occasion of Mother's Day. Ma Tujhe Salaam!

Pic: Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Pic: Philip Brown/Reuters

New Delhi Railway Station, New Delhi.

Pic: Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters

Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Caption: A janeyu ceremony
Pic: Amit Dave/Reuters

 Baramura Hills, near Agartala, Tripura.

Pic: Jayanta Dey/Reuters

Outside St James' Church, New Delhi.

Pic: Adnan Abidi /Reuters

Chandigarh.

Pic: Ajay Verma/Reuters

Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Pic: Vivek Prakash/Reuters

Borobazar, near Kolkata, West Bengal.

Pic: Parth Sanyal/Reuters

Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Pic: Amit Dave/Reuters

Banks of the Ganga, Prayagraj (Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh.

Pic: Jitendra Prakash/Reuters

Bambooflat, southern Andaman Island.

Pic: Kind courtesy Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Pic: Amit Dave/Reuters

Hansdehar, Haryana.

Pic: Adnan Abidi /Reuters

Siliguri, West Bengal.

Caption: Special rituals for daughters at Durga Puja
Pic: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Pic: Arko Datta/Reuters

Bhairamgarh village, near Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh.

Pic: Parth Sanyal/Reuters

Mumbai synagogue, Maharashtra.

Pic: Arko Datta/Reuters

On the Balason river, near Siliguri, West Bengal.

Pic: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

Leh, Ladakh.

Pic: Fayaz Kabli/Reuters

Dharavi, Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Pic: Arko Dutta/Reuters

Doda, Jammu.

Pic: Amit Gupta/Reuters

Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Pic: Manav Manglani/Reuters

Rajasthan

Pic: Kind courtesy Christopher Michel/Wikimedia Commons
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