Varanasi, India
Dasaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi. After the sacred Aarti ritual is performed each evening at the Dasaswamedh Ghat devotees cup their hands over the flames and to receive the blessing of the river goddess. The word 'aarti' means something that removes the darkness and is often called the “ceremony of light”. As one of the most sacred cities in India many people come to the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi to pray, bathe and participate in sacred purification ceremonies. Between industrial waste, sewage from town and cremation rites the Ganges is a polluted mess.
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- A RIVER OF HAZE-NORTH-INDIA

