There are cities you visit, and then there are cities that visit you—haunt you, hold you, heal you. Kashi, also known as ...

Even modern science, when it studies the emotional detachment of those who live around cremation ghats, finds less fear and ...

It is also said that when someone dies and is cremated in Kashi, specifically the Manikarnika ghat of Kashi, Shiv ji himself comes and blows the ‘Tarak mantra’ in their ear.

Planning a trip to Varanasi? These 5 famous ghats in Kashi, from Manikarnika to Assi Ghat, offer a mix of spirituality, mythology, and everyday life on the Ganges.

We had to be rescued. We then decided to shoot between November and December.” “There are as many as 64 ghats in Kashi, each with a historical significance. It celebrates life and death which ...

The ghats, the stairs and platforms at the water's edge, stretch the entire length of Kashi, as if the old city were leaning toward the water. There are over 80 ghats, and each has its own name ...

Manikarnika Ghat, one of the city's oldest cremation ghats, is responsible for burning 32,000 bodies each year, according to a CNN report from 2014. A view of Manikarnika Ghat.

First-time writer Priyanka Champaneri sets her expansive novel The City of Good Death in Varanasi. From the bylanes and ghats of her Kashi, emerges a saga encompassing death and the hereafter ...