Maddy Crowell is a freelance writer based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, the Atlantic, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Point magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, and Slate, among others.
This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.
Like most Hindus who’ve been living in Varanasi their entire lives, fifty-three-year-old professor Vishwambhar Nath Mishra takes a dip, every day, in the holy Ganges River. At sunr [...]
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