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Varanasi (India) - Third eye

The main function of ghats - stone stairs half submerged by the Ganges waters - is hard to define. For many, ghats are temples on which prayers can be muttered, gifts offered, bodies purified, and cadavers cremated. For others, they play the role of public baths and laundry shops combined. Others, again, see there a quick way to make a buck. To discern the truth through that mess, we asked the old sadu to draw a third eye on our forehead...most useful for photography.

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Uploaded on September 21, 2008
Taken on January 1, 1980