Cows do service as a DPW in the streets of Varanasi, as do dogs and goats, though as far as filth goes, they add as much as they remove. Call it a recycling program.
Gazette columnist Carl Strock recently journeyed to the holy city of Varanasi, India. No place in the world is so beautiful, so foul and so otherworldly, he reports, and offers these photographs.