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Banks of the Ganges | Philip Sen | India, Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi

Murmuring their prayers at shrines and alcoves set into Sanskrit-inscribed walls, they bathe effigies of the sacred cow and the phallic lingam that symbolises Shiva

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The Boy from the Ghats | Justine Hardy | India, Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi

The ghats in the evenings are a huge dhal pot of sound and smell simmering with all the scents and echoes of my life; the bells and the drums, the cymbals and pipes of the puja

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The Boy from the Ghats II | Justine Hardy | India, Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi

If you scan the hyperbole written about Varanasi it’s enough to put you off Divine River toe-dipping for life

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Varanasi, City of Light | Isabella Tree | India, Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi

It's a contradiction that's not easy for the first time visitor to swallow: that one of the most patently polluted places on earth is a place where people come to be purified

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