Varanasi is the spiritual heartbeat of India, but way beyond just a city, it is an eternal journey into the soul of ancient ...

There are two ghats in the old city of Varanasi where corpses are cremated. One of them is the Manikarnika Ghat, the burning ghat. Here the families carry the corpses. Here the open funeral pyres ...

This write-up will help you discover such hidden gems in Varanasi that often go unnoticed by many tourists. Even though Assi ghat is not wholly unknown, Dashashwamedh and Manikarnika Ghats ...

Munilal Tiwari, the eldest male relative of his aunt, performs last rites for her at Manikarnika Ghat before the funeral pyre is lit. [+] Click to enlarge Varanasi's cremation ghats can be ...

The Manikarnika and Harishchand ghats are the ones where around 200 cremations happen in a day. Dashashwamedh Ghat, Prayag Ghat and Assi Ghat are some of the other prominent ghats of Varanasi that ...

But everyone I spoke to in Varanasi dismissed these numbers as a fiction. A long-time city resident, who lives close to the Harishchandra and Manikarnika ghats - the two main cremation areas on ...

Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari, a prominent BJP figure and seven-term MLA from Varanasi South ... Chaudhari was cremated at Manikarnika Ghat. He served as MLA from 1989 to 2017. Amid state honour ...

The district administration said as Harish Chandra Ghat and Manikarnika Ghat have been inundated, last rites are now being carried out at relatively higher places. A control room number has been ...