About the Book: Aimless in Banaras: Wanderings in Indias Holiest City
A SENSUOUS PORTRAIT OF INDIAS HOLIEST CITY AS WELL AS A MEDITATION ON LIFE—AND
DEATH
While cremating his mother at the famed Manikarnika Ghat, Bishwanath Ghosh
pretended he was a writer collecting material for a future book rather than a
grieving son—his way of dealing with the last rites. A few years later, he
returns to Banaras to write that book. Plunging into its timeless aura, he roams
its ghats and galis, sails through the cool breeze of the Ganga, walks through
the heat of funeral pyres.
One moment he is observing a sadhu show off