Ahhhhhhhh, nothing beats sitting down in a nice little cafe, with the sun shining outside, watching the world go by, as you sip a fresh sweet banana lassi...and every 15 minutes you hear a crowd of men chanting their love for god as they carry their newly deceased family members' dead body right past you on the way to set fire to it on the nearby riverbank. This is Varanasi. Burning Ghats. Varanasi is one of, if not the most holiest cities in India. It is said...

Calcutta or now Kolkata.The former capital of British India, Kolkata has an interesting yet quite depressing history. It spent a lot of time as the capital and was an enterprising powerful city until the end of colonial times. Britain shifted the capital to Delhi in 1911 which served as the start of the decline. The worst time for Calcutta though was definitley at the time of India's partition in 1947. The partition created East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and the ...