The Ganges with Sue Perkins

Sue visits Varanasi, a beautiful, bustling, but stinking metropolis like no other place on earth

Sue visits Varanasi, a beautiful, bustling, but stinking metropolis like no other place on earth.

To die here is a great honour, and death is quite literally in the air, as 150 bodies a day are cremated on pyres on the river banks.

The constant onslaught of this crazy city nearly breaks Sue, but it’s not a place she will ever forget.

In nearby Deura, she meets the Green Gang, a bunch of women who roam the village to protect others from domestic violence.