And monkeys. There are plenty of monkeys, and nobody bothers them. One swung onto our hotel balcony while my wife was sitting there minding her own business, and she was so inured by then she didn’t even scream.
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.