Sunday, April 12, 2009

VARANASI: Evening Aarti at the Dasashvamedha Ghat

More brief video clips from my trip to Varanasi; these are of the sunset "aarti" (an "offering" of lamps in praise of a deity) at the Dasashvamedha ghat:







2 comments:

Hazel Dream said...

how much material culture uses our sense organs to force itself is reflected in these grand rituals. humans are slave ..

rks said...

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/04/20/090420crbo_books_wood

"From Venice to Varanasi"