When his wife dies, he will wash the body with holy water ... ghats in the old city of Varanasi where corpses are cremated. One of them is the Manikarnika Ghat, the burning ghat.

The photo shows an exhausted Chandrakala Singh, sitting stone-faced in an electric rickshaw with the body of her son Vineet Singh, on a busy street in the city of Varanasi in the northern state of ...

The region around Varanasi, one of the holiest cities in ... on the banks of Ganges river - says funeral pyres have been burning non-stop for the past month. 'Wherever you look, you see ambulances ...

Believed to be world's oldest inhabited city, the holy town of Varanasi holds an exalted place ... or cremate loved ones at select burning ghats. The ghats of the ganges Evenings bring spectacular ...