Ghat Life Ganges Varanasi

A roughly edited film of my trip Feb 2004

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• varanasi
• ganges
• ghat
• life
• india
• boat
• dead
• shiva
• benares

[honeyvandal]

I'm amazed at the amount of anger and annoyance this video evokes in so many of you, it says alot about you all feel about yourselves. The saying goes all perception is projection......think about it.

[AliceG14]

@honeyvandal did you swim in that dirty water too?

[honeyvandal]

No :-)

[sharingideas]

What I don't understand is if along the Ganges it'is holy, why doesn't the gov't do something to offer the people proper facilities such as toilets, garbage cans, proper cremation sites, etc. These people are living in squalor & uncleanliness. My goodness, it's disgusting to see human & animal filth along the Ganges, & people are bathing and drinking the water. For Heavens sake, why don't the Indians do something about this, and live a little more dignified. Cleanliness is next to Godliness

[Dickie9028]

Believe me people, one day in our life time a virus will rise from the filth of India and decimate the known world. This is beyond understanding and reasoning, to make it worst many Shiva's eat the dead semi-cooked human flesh. Remember these are suppose to be some of the smartest people in the world..YEA RIGHT. These Indians have migrated to every country in the world.... keep them away from your rivers...LOL

[fpopee]

Solet me get this right:I have to recycle every goddamn thing i own,The rat bastids in the U.S.govt tell me when to put my air conditioner on,when to lite my gas grill,buy a smaller car,green this,green that.college assholes tell us how much pollution an American baby genrates in its lifetime,and then I look at this filth?Who in the hell does the world community think they are tellin me about pollution? these people have built a tolerance to disease theyr so filthy.CULTURE MY ASS!THIS IS FILTH

[SurrealSamuiTV]

thankxx for this, me go next february to the holy city varanasi

[motorxcycle]

I think cannibalism would be more dignified. This is a disgrace. I hope in 100 yrs when internet gets to their village that they will read this.

[ELconchesumare]

At 2:23 you can clearly hear a dog cry as he accidentally falls into the water and realizes how dirty it is.

[ELconchesumare]

@pharyngealized you got depths of despair from Ann of Green Gables didnt you

[ELconchesumare]

I think I got food poisoning just from watching this video

[faulpes]

this is ridiculous!

[schbrachbolidsei]

What a waste of wood burning corpses. They should place a barbecue over the flames.

[FLIMGAMINGA]

@AliceG14 You don't need to swim or be part of their culture to respect it. This videos doesn't cause any kind of anxiety on me. Is THEIR culture, not mine, I don't live there, I don't understand the meaning of those rotuals in their life. So, no I'm not disgusted or offended by that.