His photographs of the funeral ghats in Benares--unsettling, riveting, weirdly beautiful--were shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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From there, head to the main river that cuts through the town, the Tungabhadra, to watch pilgrims and locals bathe down by the ghats.

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Flanked by the mountainous Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, the slender state descends from tea plantation-cloaked slopes to golden beaches that edge into vivid blue seas.

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Western Ghats (India) : Older than the Himalaya mountains, the mountain chain of the Western Ghats represents geomorphic features of immense importance with unique biophysical and ecological processes.

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Nadesar guests invariably want to witness the daily spectacle (best seen by boat): children plunging off the ghats, ascetics in search of alms, shrouded bodies covered in marigolds delivered to the funeral pyres.

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