My sister wanted to travel to India (and quite especially, to Varanasi) since she was very young. She was (just as I am) very aware that our Roma ancestors came from India one day, some ten centuries ago. She wished to go there but had not time enough.
I share this beautiful and instructive post for her sake, because she probably would have done it had she seen it today. I was caught by the caption as well, because to pray for freedom and to wait death are some of my favourite tasks these days, so dark.
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Photographer Monidipta Saha is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this social documentary photography. From his project ‘The Salvation‘. To see Monidipta’s gallery of photographs click on any image. According to the Hindu religion, the human life is an infinite cycle of birth and death. Every life is […]
via Praying For Freedom While Waiting For Death In The Holy City Of Varanasi — Edge of Humanity Magazine
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