Baisakhi

"We were called by the police and asked to come," said Baisakhi Dhar from West Bengal state, searching for her husband Nikhil Dhar.

Others were celebrating the city's Sikh Baisakhi festival and found themselves mixed up with the demonstrators.

In the southern state of Kerala, the festival of Vishu was celebrated on Wednesday, and the main harvest celebration in parts of north India, Baisakhi, was celebrated on Tuesday.

Sobbing, Baisakhi told me: "I am so happy to see her. If only she had come a few days earlier, she would have been able to see her sister before she died."

Her 25-year-old grand-niece Baisakhi Adhikari had tears in her eyes as she hugged her.