Diwali was this past Friday. In 2014, 10 years ago, I posted about my spending Diwali on the Ganges River. These observations became the basis for my book Rabbi on The Ganges: A Hindu-Jewish Encounter (2019), But for those who did not read it then, here is a link to the post. You see how much I was fascinated by Hindu rituals and the exact nature of them. This was before all the new updates to the city of Varanasi and the new roads.
Read the old post, but dont worry, I have lots of brand new material coming as original posts in the next 2 weeks both from friends and my own material
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