In the heart of India lies Varanasi, a city that predates history itself. As you wander through its narrow alleys, the walls ...

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Smoldering funeral pyres line the Ganges river in India's holy city of Varanasi, where thousands of Hindu faithful come each year to spend their final days. July 10, 2022 News ...

Smouldering funeral pyres line the Ganges river in India's holy city of Varanasi, where thousands of Hindu faithful come each year to spend their final days.

The alleyways eventually churn me out on the banks of the Ganges. Cremations take place on funeral pyres at the river’s “burning ghats”, the most auspicious of which is the Manikarnika Ghat.

Varanasi, India. ‘Hum paani ke jeev hain. We are creatures of water,’ says 29-year-old Vishwakarma Sahni. Sahni belongs to Varanasi's community of approximately 8,000 mallah, the boatmen whose lives ...

The Ganges is also used by many Hindus as a place for cremation and immersion of ashes. While this is a cultural practice, it has also added to the pollution problem of the river.

The Ganges river is one of the world’s most sacred waterways—and one of its most polluted. To restore it, India is undertaking one of the biggest engineering programs in the history of sanitation.

Relatives of deceased men wait on the staircase of Manikarnika Ghat to dip the bodies in Ganges River for a final purification act before the cremation on January 28, 2018 in Varanasi, India.

A blue stream spews from beneath brick factory buildings in Kanpur, India. The dark ribbon curls down a dirt embankment and flows into the Ganges River. "That's toxic runoff," says Rakesh Jaiswal ...

Manikarnika Ghat is a sacred cremation site located on the banks of the Ganges River in the holy city of Varanasi, India. The ghat is a popular and important Hindu pilgrimage site, where the ...

KARACHI: For the first time, the ashes of 426 cremated Hindus are expected to be immersed in the Ganges River in Haridwar, India, by their family members after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ...