Xinhua photos of the day

A child lights candles at a village some 160 km away from Kolkata, India, on Oct. 27, 2019. The festival of lights "Deepawali", or Diwali, is being celebrated across India on Sunday, with houses decked up with colourful lights and earthen lamps, and people exchanging sweets and bursting firecrackers. (Photo by Tumpa Mondal/Xinhua)