Even though I didn’t find enough indicators of a mother-of-all-elections on the streets of Varanasi, speak to the average Banarasi and he or she would definitely have a view on the political sentiments of a majority of citizens.

I asked the person who helped us get special access to the famed Kashi Vishwanath Temple on who he thinks is a likely winner and he said rather emphatically that it will be Narendra Modi, even as he hastened to added: Kejriwal is a nice, honest guy.