The family will shoulder the stretcher and carry it down the narrow lanes to the ghats. Sometimes a band plays, because death in Kashi is not only a day of mourning, but also a holiday.

Marcella d-Muinck, from Netherland, and her Indian husband Rishikesh Pundalik experienced a gush of spirituality amid a heavy crowd as they walked from one ghat to another in Varanasi. Lali ...

Now the destination was the same -- Kashi Labh Mukti Bhavan ... 32,000 bodies are burned at Manikarnika Ghat every year. And he recites all the rules of death that are specified in ancient ...

Kashi is one of the ... This is the primary cremation Ghat in Varanasi. This is the place where people get Moksha or liberation from the cycle of birth and death.

I spent an unhealthy amount of time on Manikarnika ghat and watched as bodies ... I hope Kalki spares the city of Kashi. A city where life and death pay rent and co-exist peacefully.