“Why a widow, even if Mani were untouchable, or something worse, she is still a gem of a woman for me. We look for experienced people, but when it comes to choosing life partner, we don’t consider experience a good thing. I am not one who would strangle justice. No school can impart experience as adversity does. The person who has a degree from this s…
Read moreBenares was not a disappointment. It justified its reputation as a curiosity. It is on high ground, and overhangs a grand curve of the Ganges. It is a vast mass of building, compactly crusting a hill, and is cloven in all directions by an intricate confusion of cracks which stand for streets. Tall, slim minarets and beflagged temple-spires rise out of it and give i…
Read moreThe sacred city of Shiva stands graciously on the banks of river Ganga which are lined with an endless chain of stone steps known as the Ghats . Spread out in an area of around 7 kms along the river Ganga, these 90 odd ghats are dotted with a number of palaces, princely mansions, ashrams and mutts, ancient temples and shrines. Soon after the sunrise, t…
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