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The Ghats of Kashi — A First Album

A field album of the Kashi riverfront — the stone crescent where the city’s scholarship, ritual, and river life meet.

Indic Warriors Editorial · 17 August 2026 · 1 min read

The ghats of Kashi at dawn

Every album in the Indic Gallery is a field record: real places, walked and documented. This first album walks the ghats of Kashi — the river-facing stone steps that are the city’s true public architecture, where scholarship, ritual, commerce, and death have shared the same waterfront for centuries.

The ghats of Kashi at dawn
The ghats at dawn: an unbroken crescent of stone along the Ganga — Photo: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Assi Ghat, Varanasi
Assi Ghat — the southern gateway, and our own neighbourhood ground — Photo: Akshay8090 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi
Manikarnika — the ghat the Kashi Khanda calls the fire that never sleeps — Photo: sunoochi from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Boats on the Ganga at Varanasi
The river’s working life: boats that have ferried pilgrims for generations — Photo: Schwiki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Kashi Vishwanath temple, Varanasi
Kashi Vishwanath — the axis the whole crescent turns around — Photo: Gannu03 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Explore more albums in the Indic Gallery, and walk these ghats with us on the Kashi & Prayagraj Heritage Yatra.

Credits: photographs via Wikimedia Commons under their stated licenses (per-image credit in captions); curation by Indic Warriors.

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Written by Indic Warriors Editorial · Published by Indic Warriors · 17 August 2026

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