Kevin Frayer, a photographer based in Delhi for The Associated Press, captured these scenes over the past 48 hours as he traveled around the Indian capital.

Kevin Frayer / AP A man tries to stop his buffaloes jamming traffic as a man tries to get by with his bicycle on a busy bridge on a hazy morning in New Delhi, India, Nov. 5, 2012.

Kevin Frayer / AP A man drives his children to school on his motorcycle in New Delhi, Nov. 5, 2012.

Kevin Frayer / AP A boy is washed by his parents from a local water source under an expressway in New Delhi, Nov. 5, 2012.

Kevin Frayer / AP A man on a horse and others are stuck in traffic on a bridge in New Delhi, Nov. 5, 2012.

Kevin Frayer / AP A Hindu man throws ash off a bridge into the polluted holy Yamuna River, in New Delhi on Nov. 6, 2012.

Kevin Frayer / AP Drivers and cows are jammed in traffic in New Delhi, Nov. 5, 2012.

Kevin Frayer / AP A man dries laundry on the polluted Yamuna River, holy to Hindus, on a hazy morning in New Delhi on Nov. 6, 2012.

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