Path to enlightenment

"Buddha's shrine"

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India Picture by Don Sebastian
Travel story: Path to enlightenment

Apart from a handful of minibuses and the big autorickshaws that could accommodate a dozen passengers (and long distance trains, of course), public transport is scarce between Varanasi and Saranath. But the wary traveller doesn't need a route map on the road to Saranath. Houses, shops, gates, billboards...everything features a familiar leitmotif - Ashoka Chakra, the wheel with 24 spokes.

Ashoka Chakra, the motif on the Indian tricolour, and Ashoka Stupa, the national emblem, come... More