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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Varanasi: On the second day of Kashi Tamil Sangamam-3, a group of students from Tamil Nadu experienced the spiritual grandeur ...

Earlier today, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister surveyed Varanasi's ghats ahead of the inauguration of Kashi Tamil Sangamam 3.0. Devotees continue to arrive in large numbers after their visit to ...