Some stay only days, others wait decades, but the crowds of elderly Indian ... moved to Varanasi two years ago, looking ...

In India, Varanasi is considered a holy city. Millions of Hindus believe that people who die here, in this city on the Ganges, are lucky. Because if they are cremated here, they can break the ...

Varanasi is in India’s most populous and electorally ... Funeral pyres, especially at Manikarnika Ghat, the most sacred of cremation places, burn nonstop, melting human flesh on piles of mango ...

Nowhere is India more confusing, more chaotic, more Indian than in Varanasi. Everything follows a precise order: The day, life, death. Bitte passen Sie die Einstellungen an. Varanasi belongs to ...

Pilgrims come from across India and around the ... higher and higher states of being. Varanasi is also considered the holiest place on earth for Hindu cremation because the body's ashes can ...

Varanasi, India A 10-hour journey on Indian roads can be difficult and this one, fueled by faith, was more so. Dinesh Chandra Mishra packed moth-eaten woolen blankets for the trip along with ...