‘Varanasi is not an ordinary place – it’s an experience’: Svetlin Yosifov’s best phone picture

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‘Varanasi is not an ordinary place – it’s an experience’: Svetlin Yosifov’s best phone picture

Capturing the sights, smells and heat of India’s spiritual capital“Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges, is viewed as the spiritual capital of India,” photographer Svetlin Yosifov says. “It’s also known as the city of death. While many Hindus undertake pilgrimage to see its temples and ghats, and bathe in the sacred river, some come when they feel death is near. Hindu scripture says dying and being cremated there frees a person from the cycle of…