8 Varanasi English

There are no words for this city, the age of the city is in the air. It should be the oldest city in the world that is and has been continuously inhabited. Houses where the Middle Ages is written on their faces and newer concrete buildings that come from those days.
It is the city of Shiva, a god of Hinduism.

The religion is gone lamented a shopkeeper, all people run, want to sell you something. The richness is low, it lacks at many corners.
It is sound, it's a world of men, almost no women in the temples. It is a world in which the strongest must prevail. As a tourist, it is a "qualitatively difference" says an Indian. It's true, they do not have credit card and health insurance. Begging-women and children are selling flowers, it is a balancing act. With the equivalent of 17 cents, you can join the club of the road Samaritan, as I admit, sometimes less or more.
People with head tumors, other diseases are on the agenda. Dogs with open wounds.
In India, every life is sacred, so life is also honored and not killed.
Wherever I go, I am a European and the distance between the people from India and Europe seems to be very large.
But there are usually great moments. I was once invited a shopkeeper to a concert, classical Indian music, it was wonderful. The best way you see the video from Pandit Anindo Chaterjee.
Indian music is not directed precisely at Scores, but there are several issues, it was the Ganges issue in my case, the course of the Ganges was accompanied by music. Music is also regarded as an eternal expression of the word "OM", there is no beginning and no end.

The Ganges itself is a dirty river, the Indians do not have such a strong separation between nature and culture, as we have in Europe, so the river can not be contaminated also, because he is still nature. Discarded waste is also not so bad, for it is as soon as he lies on the ground in nature. An environmental awareness due to negative environmental impact is more or less non-existent under the Indian general population. Some people think differently, but as the more unsuccessful initiative of the State indicates, the situation is rather hopeless.
In the passage of the Ganges therefore you can find some interesting things, like some dead animals of any kind, burned bodies, some dead bodies from the bottom of the Ganges (very young children, Saddhus, pregnant women and snakes accidents are not burned, because they are sacred and therefore the sins not have to be burned).

After the departure, I realize how hard it was on me, disease and decay is everywhere. I think that without a strong faith in God, can not be life in this city.