Hindu women, wearing traditional saris, pray and light candles beside the Ganges River, during the annual Diwali Festival of Lights.
A woman being cremated on a funeral pyre in a traditional Hindu ritual, at an outdoor crematorium on the ghats beside the Ganges River.
A Hindu sadhu sits with all his possessions on a mat on Darbhanga Ghat. A sadhu is a religious ascetic who has renounced the worldly life.
