-Stepping into their shadow?-Yeah. It's like that. -It's 2014. India's got a space program. That's incredible. -That's India. Cremations here are public but rich events. The oldest son of the deceased's family leads the funeral rites. First, the body...
- People give whatever they can afford.-It sounds like a very difficult and upsetting job. Is it a job and a role that you find it difficult or do you enjoy it? -It is a family tradition, and I see it as a duty. It's like a family business. It doesn'...
With so many people coming to the city of Varanasi to die, close to the Ganges, funerals are big business here, families go to great lengths to ensure their loved ones are cremated on the river bank, thus securing their eternal salvation. At the main...
Is everybody here to die? Is that why people come here? We have come here for that, but we can only die here if it is written in our destiny. When did you come here? How long have you been here? It has been 18 years now. You both have been here for 1...
Hindu's belif that to die within the confine of the city or to have gashes sgated with river here. to escape the board of circle of incorn nation, and achieve macshone or alternal libration. upper where we go, so we are going to very special place of...
-We're just coming into the city of Varanasi. It's one of the oldest continued things inhabit its citizens in the world. It's a place that's said to be as old as Babylon.The same religious rituals have been practiced in the temples here for more than...
I don't really understand, Hinduism the faith teaches respect and love for nature, this is the sacred Ganges, why are Indians doing this to the Ganges? Even i can't understand this, this is the river we worship and revere and whose waters we consider...
In Kampool the river is effectively dead. No one ever thought this would happen. All the rubbish and sewage from the city goes into the river Ganges. Kampool has 400 tanneries. They also drain their poisonous water into the Ganges. Rack showed me a c...
We stopped at the waste water pumping station by the side of the road. So this is some so called treated water. A study by an Indian institute of technology found it even after supposedly being treated, the waste water from the tannery still contains...
-I mean this is a land where compassion for animals is considered a major value. I mean it's a very basic value. -It's a religious code, as well. -It's a religious code, as well. And yet, because of the religion, it's become important just culturally...
