In Varanasi, her guests travel on the river in flower-decked boats with musicians instead of just watching from the riverbanks as other travelers do.
Unless you already happen to live beside a stunning mountain lake in Guatemala or inside a fairy-tale walled garden in Varanasi, you are far, far away, but your individual comforts and desires are still in familiar focus.
The frames and the power in the power looms came to be completely made by small-scale almost home garage entrepreneurs in Varanasi.
So after years of planning, Mr Turner left his 90-acre avocado and blueberry farm in Comboyne, north of Sydney, last October and arrived in Varanasi, near Allahabad, with his family.
Water was originally planned to be shot in India in 2000 but both the location and the time of production had to be altered after Hindu hardliners disrupted the shoot in Varanasi.
In the river's holiest place, Varanasi, the permanent population has soared in the last 30 years to around 3m, and a chronic pollution problem (mostly caused by human detritus) becomes uncontrollable whenever electricity fails and sewage treatment plants break down though that does not seem to deter pilgrims from bathing in waters they see as eternally sacred.
Mehta was prevented by some Hindu groups from filming Water in the Indian city of Varanasi.
At home his family bandaged his bleeding head, and took him to the derelict local clinic which administered some first aid before sending him off to a better-equipped hospital in the holy town of Varanasi, some 70km (45 miles) away.
For the particular jacquard-method production of Varanasi silk, no other silk will do in possessing the same strength and length.
This same technology was brought to Varanasi at around the same time as its use in France and adopted by some forward-thinking weavers.
Now this was tremendous entrepreneurship, which in the Victorian era caused the rise of Varanasi or Benares silk.
Nadesar--a classic example of Raj architecture and a royal palace from 1889 to 1931--sits smack in the heart of the world's oldest living city, Varanasi.
In Uttar Pradesh various divisions of the state including Garhwal, Bareily, Allahabad , Varanasi, Faizabad, Agra and Lucknow have been experiencing above normal temperatures for almost a fortnight.
For visitors interested in religion and architecture, she might craft an itinerary to Agra via the spiritual center of Varanasi to witness the ceremony of lighting votive lamps on the Ganges, and Khajuraho, known for its intricate temples.
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