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| The wholesale flower market is dependent on the religious ceremonies |
Life lives side by side with death on the ghats. Clothes are washed and dried in the steps, people use them as their baths, newly wedded couples come in their wedding clothes for blessings from 'holy mother Ganges ' and then there are the cremations. The low cast men (Dalits) make the bamboo stretchers, they prepare the wood (weighed according to how much is needed), they light the fires and collect the ashes.
Religion dominates every aspect of Varanasi and cows lead a charmed life.
Vegetarians rule here
Vegetarians rule here
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