ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The cremation cerimony is held high, far from mud and water. A truly unusual thing in Varanasi where the dead body are usually transported to the banks of the Ganges and then cremated on its shores.
Between agust and september, with the continuous rise of water level in the Ganges the water level rose to a rate of 5 cm per hour for several days until reaching 68 meters, just below the maximum alarm level of 70.626 meters. Some major ghats have submerged, houses have been flooded, agricolture of the area damaged. According to the projections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its sixth impact report (February 2022) the responsability for the increase in the level of South Asian river basins is of anthropic climate change. The increase in temperatures will cause increasingly extreme events. This year with an average of 36-38 degree in April, India has reached a record for the last 122 years.

AUTHOR
38, journalist, for long time i worked for italian television as reporter. I love travel alone around the world and the camera has become an inseparable companion. I photograph not only to witness what i see, but above all to express a personal perspective, a poin of view, an interpretation and not just a representation.

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