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:







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2 comments:

  1. Hazel Dream4/12/2009 06:40:00 AM

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

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  2. rks4/28/2009 03:35:00 AM

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

    "From Venice to Varanasi"

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