Hindu mourners wait for the cremation of their loved ones at the flooded Manikarnika Ghat, one of the oldest and most sacred places for Hindus to be cremated, on the banks of river Ganges in Varanasi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. As the mighty Ganges River overflows following heavy monsoon rains, large parts of the Hindu holy town of Varanasi were submerged by floodwaters, forcing thousands of cremations to happen on rooftops and narrow alleyways. For millions of Hindus, Varanasi is a place of pilgrimage and anyone who dies in the city or is cremated on its ghats is believed to attain salvation and freed from the cycle of birth and death.
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