Every album in the Indic Gallery is a field record: real places, walked and documented. This first album walks the ghats of Kashi — the river-facing stone steps that are the city’s true public architecture, where scholarship, ritual, commerce, and death have shared the same waterfront for centuries.
The ghats at dawn: an unbroken crescent of stone along the Ganga — Photo: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia CommonsAssi Ghat — the southern gateway, and our own neighbourhood ground — Photo: Akshay8090 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia CommonsManikarnika — the ghat the Kashi Khanda calls the fire that never sleeps — Photo: sunoochi from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia CommonsThe river’s working life: boats that have ferried pilgrims for generations — Photo: Schwiki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia CommonsKashi Vishwanath — the axis the whole crescent turns around — Photo: Gannu03 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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