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India Revisited - Funeral Pyres at Varanasi

It is sunrise at Varanasi on the the banks of the holy Ganges River. Cremations are under way. There are about one billion Hindus in India and when they die they are cremated. Indians are much closer to the flow of daily life than is common in the Western world.

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Uploaded on April 15, 2021
Taken on February 8, 2013