A family business looking after pilgrims in Kasi

A yatra usually means three different arrangements: somewhere to sleep, somewhere to eat, and someone to drive. Families reach Kasi after two days on a train and then have to sort all three out in an unfamiliar city, in a language they may not speak.

We keep all three in one place. The rooms are ours, the kitchen is ours, and the vehicles are ours. The person who answers the phone is the person who arranges it.

We are on the Kasi, Tirupathi and Arunachalam circuit, and the building sits in Panday Haweli, inside the old city, next to Cycle Baba Ashram.