Varanasi is also considered the holiest place on earth for Hindu cremation because the ... parade en masse to bathe in the waters of the Ganges River, followed by the millions of pilgrims who ...

Smouldering funeral pyres line the Ganges river in India's holy city of Varanasi ... just a minute's walk away. There the cremation fires blaze nonstop, as they have done since time immemorial.

The Ganges River, one of the most renowned rivers in ... Loved ones cover the deceased’s body, carry it to a cremation ghat, and then burn it for up to three hours using mango wood or sandalwood.

(AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Policemen manage the crowd, a day after a stampede killed Hindu devotees who had gathered to take a holy dip at the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna ...

Do you think it might be cremation? The uses are completely ... has been working to save an unusual mammal that lives in the Ganges: the blind river dolphin. DR SINHA: Actually there used to ...

Dashashwamedh Ghat is the most famous and vibrant ghat in Varanasi. During Shivratri, it hosts the grand Ganga Aarti. Known ...