Bechan Baba has been tending to the shrine in Banaras since he was a boy. Photo: Ravi Tripathi
Bechan Baba has been tending to the shrine in Banaras since he was a boy. Photo: Ravi Tripathi
India

In India, Hindu caretaker of a 350-year-old mosque says: ‘It’s one God for everyone’

  • Bechan Baba, 70, has for the past six decades been tending to a mosque in Varanasi, where Hindus and Muslims believe in living with harmony
  • The culture of fusing Hindu elements with Muslim religious practices is an outlier in a country where hate politics have been rising

Bechan Baba has been tending to the shrine in Banaras since he was a boy. Photo: Ravi Tripathi
Bechan Baba has been tending to the shrine in Banaras since he was a boy. Photo: Ravi Tripathi
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