I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

(Bhagavad Gita - famously quoted by Oppenheimer on witnessing the first atomic test explosion)

He who is free from the notion of Ego, whose intellect is unattached, though he annihilating all the worlds, he slayeth not, nor is he bound by the results of his actions.

(Bhagavad Gita)

Benares

The City of Light.

They may be funeral pyres burning day and night, but it's still the city of lights.

Burning means learning
Cremation is education

Jai Kali Maa

Until 1837, every Friday a boy was sacrificed at the big Kali temple in Calcutta. The Kali-worshiping Thuggee strangled and buried as sacrifices their victims with lead-weighted yellow kerchiefs.

In the Kali temple beside Manikarnika Ghat in Benares where the funeral pyres burn fierce day and night one can openly buy brown sugar and opium and white heroin.

All this we know.

But is Kali a dark goddess?