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My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

INDIA | Sunday, 13 January 2013 | Views [450] | View Larger Image

Varanasi is also the religious capital of India. Hindus believe that death at Varanasi can bring salvation (moksha), but life seems also to be lived to the full. Every day, across the Ganges riverbank, a series of religious rituals involving chanting, praying, singing and incineration processes take place. This context is also the playground for the children of Varanasi who are playing in front of temples - ghats.

Three days in Varanasi, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and the oldest in India, and a series of images with the intention to capture the daily atmosphere of the children living along the banks of the Ganges River. Every morning the dirty laundry are washed in the Ganges and stretched out to dry along the shore. Elderly and children alike participate in this activity that begins immediately after the first rays of the sun.

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The Ganges River is heavily polluted at Varanasi, priests and rituals are everywhere and bodies are cremated in public. At sunset, pilgrims and locals alike bathe in the Ganges as part of their daily hindu rituals.

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