Ganga Mahotsav lights up the ghats with music, crafts and a boat race

Varanasi's Ganga Mahotsav remains one of the city's grandest cultural celebrations — a multi-day festival along the riverfront that showcases classical music, dance, a country-boat race, a shilp mela of arts and crafts, and displays of sculpture and martial arts. Building toward Kartik Poornima, the festivities culminate in Dev Deepawali, when the steps of every ghat from Ravidas Ghat to Rajghat glow with more than a million earthen lamps in honour of the Ganga. For artists it is a marquee stage, for craftspeople a busy marketplace, and for visitors an unforgettable immersion in the living culture of Kashi.

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