Nowhere is India more confusing, more chaotic, more Indian than in Varanasi ... body with clarified butter and wrap it in a white cloth, the kafan, the final garment. He will lay out her dead ...

In a shocking incident, the body of an eight-year-old girl, who was murdered, was found stuffed inside a sack in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on ... the discovery of a dead body on Wednesday morning ...

Many fires burned around me. And around them, people grieved openly, watching their loved ones’ bodies turn to ash. Countless Hindus bring their dead to Varanasi for cremation. Twenty-four hours ...