Kashi, Varanasi, Banaras, Benares ... meant for people who believe they are in their last days and wish to die in the holy city. It has been a shelter for thousands of people over the decades, and has ...

In Hinduism, Kashi is the holiest city. Everything ends here. Hindus believe that for those who die in Varanasi, salvation awaits. For all others, rebirth awaits: Every human being has lived ...

On the western border of the Taklimakan Desert in southwest Xinjiang, there is a beautiful oasis, in the center of which stands the old and ancient charming city of Kashi. Kashi used to be the las ...

Customers might be kings, but even kings come to Kashi to die. And what is a little time in the larger scheme of things, when everybody was going to finally end up in a ghat a few kilometers away?

As the first light breaks over the subcontinent, it paints two distant shores—the ancient ghats of Kashi and the temple-lined coast of Tamil Nadu—in the same golden hue. In this liminal moment ...