Pics of the week: Madurai's female funeral undertaker and more

Chief Personnel Officer of Town Station handing over a gun to CPO Sunitha C K, on Women's Day in Kozhikode, Kerala. (Photo | Manu R Mavelil, EPS)

A woman being shooed away by the cops from the premises of the newly inaugurated Women's Safety Wing building in Hyderabad, Telangana. (Photo| S Senbagapandiyan, EPS)

84-year-old Mariammal from Bykara in Tamul Nadu's Madurai stoking a funeral pyre. She is an undertaker at Pasumalai cremation ground. She staked her claim in a man's stronghold after braving many odds. (Photo | EPS)

A flock of pigeons fly together at Cubbon Park in Bengaluru. (Express| Pushkar V, EPS)

On International Women's Day, Deputy Commandant Anuradha Shukla with fellow Deputy Commandant Shirin Chandran aboard the Coast Guard Hovercraft H 197 on the beach near Napier Bridge in Chennai, Tamil nadu. (Photo| D Sampathkumar, EPS)

A boy helping visually-challenged persons reach different offices in the Collectorate premises in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. (Photo | K K Sundar, EPS)

A woman cleaning paddy near Madurai, Tamil Nadu. (Photo| K K Sundar, EPS)

Army personnel show their eqestrian skills during combined display by OTA Cadets and Indian Army Officers at Officers Training Academy in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. (Photo | Debdatta Mallick, EPS)