Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: a human cadaver abandoned in the water being examined by a dog. Photograph.

"A dog chewing unburnt bits [of human cadaver]" and "a dog pulls at a corpse in a river" are shown in photographs of Benares by Michael Ackerman in his book End time city, Zurich 1999, according to review in Times Literary Supplement 7 January 2000 pp. 4-5 (cf. also Richard Lannoy, Benares seen from within, Bath 1999, reviewed in the same article)