How Long to Read Dead in Benares

How Long Does it Take to Read Dead in Benares?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 15 minutes to read Dead in Benares by Ravi Nandan Singh

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Ethnographies fatefully rely on chance encounters and mysteriously so such encounters come true. "Dead in Banaras" is an instance of just such a fateful chance encounter. In its inception it set out to follow the 'dead' across multiple social locations of crematoria, hospital, morgue and the aghorashram in order to assemble a contemporary moment in the funerary iconicity of the well known North Indian city of Banaras. The crematoria in plural because the open-air manual pyres and close-door electric furnaces sit side by side within the symbolic inside of the city. Hospital and morgue became chosen destinations because in the local moral world the city is a medical metropolis anchored by a famed university hospital and storied through real life dramatic narratives of medical emergency, saving and untimely death. Aghorashram on the other hand as an urban Shaivite clinic and hermitage for sexual and reproductive cures works with funerary substances as pharmacopeia. Then, early on in fieldwork, these funerary journeys of the' dead' had a chance encounter with my father's death in the city. The same set of places henceforth spoke through a sensory logic of my father's death. Dead in Banaras is then both an ethnography of being in the dead centre of a city and an autobiographical funeral travelling (Shav Yatra) that narrates the city through a mourner's logic of using the pyre to illuminate the dead as a multiplicity.

How long is Dead in Benares?

Dead in Benares by Ravi Nandan Singh is 193 pages long, and a total of 48,829 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 60% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Dead in Benares Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 26 minutes to read Dead in Benares aloud.

What Reading Level is Dead in Benares?

Dead in Benares is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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