Despite a ban on firecrackers put in place by the Supreme Court in 2019, people in the national capital burst them with gay abandon. Here, two children light crackers in Vaishali in Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh.
The reptile is herbivorous, solitary and burrow-dwelling, found in the arid and semi-arid regions of north-western India. In India, it can be found in Haryana, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.