Powerful Photographs Of India In 2011

1. India's players and team celebrate after India won their ICC Cricket World Cup final match against Sri Lanka in Mumbai April 2, 2011.

2. A woman carries her injured son through flood waters at Pahanga village in Orissa's Jajpur district. Monsoon rains collapsed mud huts and flooded wide swaths of north and east India, leaving hundreds of thousands of people marooned in the raging waters. AP Photo

3. Anna Hazare meditates at Rajghat before beginning his fast for a stringent Lokpal Bill.

4. A leopard leaps on an armed forest guard in Prakash Nagar village, near Siliguri, India. AP Photo

5.Thousands gather outside The Writers' Buildings in Kolkata awaiting Mamata Banerjee's first appearance as Chief Minister of West Bengal after a landslide victory that ended the Left's 34-year rule in the state. Reuters

6. Three-year-old Babu, a child of a migrant labourer, holds a glass filled with tea outside a makeshift tent along a road on a cold morning as cold weather continued to sweep north India at Noida in Uttar Pradesh January 4, 2011.

7. A student poses after getting her face painted during a face painting competition in Ahmedabad January 22, 2011.

8. School children ride on an auto-rickshaw on their way back home from school in Ahmedabad March 8, 2011.REUTERS/Amit Dave

9. Farmers block railway tracks during a protest in Karchana town in Uttar Pradesh January 21, 2011.REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash

10. A fisherman arranges a fishing net as his wife paddles their boat in the waters of the Periyar river on the outskirts of the southern Indian city of Kochi January 5, 2011.