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Grieving man gets his head shaved while a dead body is carried for cremation in a bamboo stretcher swathed in cloth at Manikarnika Ghat, by the Ganges river, in Varanasi, India.

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Grieving man gets his head shaved while a dead body is carried for cremation in a bamboo stretcher swathed in cloth at Manikarnika Ghat, by the Ganges river, in Varanasi, India.