Varanasi

Varanasi 2011

Aarti Puja

Nightly religious ceremony with music, dance and fire.

An important daily spiritual gathering, and a great free spectacle for tourists

Not a handbag, not a manbag, a bababag...

Mother Ganga, just before the break of day

In the Ganges, cleanliness is a long way from godliness

The Puja-Pollution Paradox...

Rupesh in the back streets of Varanasi

Tuku ji does his Puja on the quieter and "cleaner" side of the river

Fire and Water