morning on the ganges

Mother Ganga

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March 26th 2011
I have spent the last three days watching bodies burn along the Ganges. At two points they burn bodies, often as many as ten at a time, twenty four hours a day, every day of the year. The families carry the bodies down to the water on a bamboo stretcher. They lower the body into the river and splash water over the face. Then they carry the body up to one of the many stacks of wood. A man ligh ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more