Manikarnika and Harishchandra ghats. For most, death is the cruel departure of their loved ones. For some it is point of pondering over the questions of life and death and illusion of this whole existence. For some death signifies life here. They survive here. Live on giving the final liberation to the departed. Learning their way of life through the bylanes of death.
The sites are never great visually.
Dilapidated buildings! Rugged texture! Rough terrain! Dirty aisles! Polluted and charged atmosphere!
Blackened outlines! Greenish flow of eternal Ganga! Its multicoloured sewage component! Its diminishing flowline!
Pure thoughts! Absolute thoughts! Confused thoughts! Questioning thoughts! Answering thoughts! No thoughts!
Whatever!
They pull the conscious as they symbolize the only truth in life. Death and associate questions of life and relations! Yet we fear it so much!
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