Press play and let MRIGAN narrate the history, folklore and culture of India's great destinations — read aloud, so you can just close your eyes and listen.
Varanasi is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth — older than history, older than tradition, as Mark Twain once wrote. For over three thousand years, pilgrims have come to its ghats where the Ganga bends north, believing that to die here is to be freed from the endless cycle of rebirth.