Sydney Morning Herald & The Age, Australia – May 16, 2015
“What’s that?” I ask, pointing at the smoke curling up from the opposite riverbank. “Burning bodies,” replies my guide nonchalantly. “They’ll gather the ashes and scatter them in the Ganges.”
Through the smoky haze I can see the world’s most famous monument, a building Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore described as “a teardrop on the cheek of eternity”.
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Rob McFarland 