There was a time when upper-caste ‘pehelwans’ wrestled in the ‘akhada’ that belonged to the low-caste Dom community
All in Corpse-burners
The unseen Dom women
Within Varanasi’s community of corpse-burners, the Dom women remain absent from public spaces
A day in the life of a corpse-burner
‘When I was 13 years old, I began drinking. It was the only way I wouldn’t faint from the smell of melting flesh,’ says Gagan Chaudhary, a corpse-burner