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Known as the twice-born - first into the flesh and again when initiated into their vocation - the Brahmins are a caste devoted to sacred learning. But what Taseer finds in Benares, the holy city of death also known as Varanasi, is a window on an India as internally fractured as his own continent-bridging identity.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 MINNA CANTH AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING Blending the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists with the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen, “an exquisite feminist critique of Russia’s oppressive tactics" (Kirkus Reviews)...

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.” -- Heraticlus, ca. 500 BCEThe Same River Twice is a True Crime podcast that will offer a deep-dive into a mostly-forgotten case that happened in the Pacific Northwest in 1977. We want to try to understand how it happened and give respect to the lost.