"They don't come to see Ramlila, God calls them": Ram Babu has been coming every year since 1960. He said that earlier he used to come on foot, but now children bring him by bike.

In Varanasi, the world-famous Ramlila of Ramnagar featured a staging of the Nishadraj episode after Van Gaman on Sunday. Among the audience who came to watch the Ramlila were some whose connection with it goes back not just one or two years, but generations. Ram Babu from Bhairavnath has been regularly attending the Ramlila since 1960. He says, "I don't come to see the Ramlila; God calls me." Ram Babu, who once crossed the Ganges by boat and many times on foot, is now...