India's Varanasi: Holy city on the Ganges where Hindus seek salvation


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The dying Sharda bestows her blessing upon her granddaughter in the Mukti Bhawan, or house of salvation. Photos: Anne-Sophie Galli/dpa

When Sharda Devi realised she only had a few days left to live, it didn't go down particularly well.

Her son Mukesh Tiwari was preparing a ceremony involving a holy cow in their village in the impoverished state of Bihar, in India's north-west, when she began yelling at him, irritated by the fact that this wasn't how she had been planning to spend her last days on Earth.

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