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Setting fire to a body, using not matches but fire obtained from a flame in the temple that has supposedly been kept alive for the past 3,000 years.
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Strock in India, Part 2
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Posted: March 5, 2009
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.
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