The invisible and mythical population of Banaras by far surpasses the visible population and dominates the visible world. In Banaras, everything has a story, a legend, or a myth. Like the morning mist, powerful mythologies shroud the city. The sacred fiction sustains the city and its pursuits. Here, form undoubtedly follows immaculate fiction.
People come here to die.
Even if one has led a miserable life, death in Banaras is said to liberate one of all the agony. The invisible signs on thousands of temples, ghats and houses in Banaras tacitly declare this eternal bargain through an ingenious epistemology of space. At Banaras, death, the biggest human fear and enigma, has been tamed and domesticated by the city and its mythologies. With death, all of your sins are forgiven by virtue of your being in the city of Banaras. Existence is eternal and immortal, and therefore sustainable in Banaras.