Varanasi — the spiritual city of India — can be a shock to the first-time visitor. Crowded and noisy, slow traffic, beggars and vagabonds, meandering bulls and cows, overarching religiousness, wholesale dead bodies, cremations, etc. But then, it’s not easy to grab the essence of one of the world’s oldest living cities. Hindu scriptures call the … Continue reading The Ghats of Holy Varansi