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puja on the balcony
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pilgrams in silhouette
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Nepali pilgrams in Varanasi
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struggling to delivery the wood for the cremations
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Katheryn amongst the chaos
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wood worker
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setting the stage
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the Ghats at night
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freshly shorn pilgrams taking the ritualistic dip
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expert kite flyer
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meditating on the mass head shaving
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As the Nepali can make pilgramage rarely, they enact all the Hindu cremation rituals en masse years after the death
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huge funeral pyre seen on the rooftop
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pilgrams
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sky reddened by huge funeral pyre
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eerie glow from the burning ghat
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ghats at night
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typical traffic jam
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I know I'm being bullish, but this is where I want to sit
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reflections on the past, still present