The holy city of Varanasi - The Ganges with Sue Perkins: Episode 2 - BBC

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[SimonAtkinson]

"Is this man a holy man?" ... "No he's a barber."

[vinnivasu]

I'm from Malaysia and I just visited ganges on September 2022, super clean. It's very unlike the ganges shown in this documentary. I even went to the Kasi Viswanathan temple, it's Soo beautiful. I felt blessed to be there. Wish to go there again.

[twobrosoriginals]

you must visit India Rishikesh to experience clean and serene Ganga. However remember, Varanasi has a different major spiritual significance.

[teleopinions]

It's fascinating that it is a sacred place and the river banks are for everybody to enjoy and do what their culture dictates.  I suppose here in the USA they would have built high end homes and condos for the super wealthy and some parts of the river as a private beach where you'd have to pay to enter.  Just a different culture and I respect that.  They've been doing that probably for thousands of years and it obviously works for them. They're alive and happy which is a lot more that I can say about some people around here.

[lindo]

Who else is here bc their RS teacher sent them?💀

[sapphire]

So apparently this rive "can't be made dirty" yet it is the 6th most polluted river in the world and the most polluted in India. And yet people are CLEANSING themselves with their own waste and drinking it.
No offence to Hindus but I would have thought a holy river, supposedly a goddess, should have been properly treated so that people can actually go there in the future and bathe in it without getting ill?

[jaijaihalari]

"It's deeply brown" 😌 killed me.

[davidpearn]

Been there, not for the faint hearted.

[ronniebutler]

I so want to visit Varanasi, my husband has visited it a few times. He said it is a dump, but still I want to go. That and Agra to see the Taj Mahal. x I have done india three times but never these areas.

[cookie]

If I was a prime minister I would put a long concentrate barrier along the river... For each River

[goddamn]

I am Indian and my parents are Hindu. I resented how my parents took me to these filthy congested places of pilgrimage when I was a minor. I would advise all sensible people to stay away. Except BBC reporters and historians etc. Richard Dawkins is spot on when he says it is child abuse to teach your children that they belong to a certain religion or denomination.

[chloestiles]

Aren't they technically bathing in dead bodies?

[sarahqb]

Just for a little context here ... Hindu's believe that they are bathing in the waters of their Goddess Ganga, who was too powerful to be on earth, and so she is anchored down by the hairs of Shiva, in the Himalayas. They believe that if you bath in the river all of the sins that you have committed in this life is forgotten, and if you drink even a drop, every sin you have ever committed is gone for good. This makes you closer in your journey for your Atman to meet Brahman.

[Audialeyes]

Why Varanasi? Couldn't you bath in any part of Ganges? I'd be tempted to bathe closer to mountains.

[monkesupremacy]

How the hell do they enjoy themselves in dirty water

[DeepakkumarSharma]

The title should be dirty parts of india with sue Perkins 😂😂 because that's what BBC always shows.

[Iris-mjyo]

Who’s here because there RS teacher sent u here






(Like if thats u)

[viveesha]

I was in Varanasi last month (February)and found the river quite clean

[silviak.menadethomas]

“How can India have a space program but not sewage system or toilets.

[sedoff]

Such an objectionable woman. Where does the BBC find them? Get thee to a nunnery!