Sitting on a rowing boat on the Ganges in Varanasi, the holiest river in the holiest city, where Hindus come to die. Watching puja on the banks. Walking past cows and shrines in the tiny lanes of the old city, with pigment on my forehead and flowers round my neck. Choking on smoke at the cremation ghats. Leaving in the dead of night to avoid Holi
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