On the occasion of Navsamvatsara Chaitra Navratri, the chief minister performed the Aarti with complete rituals at the Laxminarayan Ghat near the Laxminarayan Temple. On this occasion, Dhami described ...

CJ Robinson, “Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi”, Watercolour on watercolour board, c. 1910. Courtesy DAG. This is an excerpt of an essay from the book Banaras – Imagined Landscape, accompanying ...

On The River Ganges, Benares, by the American painter Edwin Lord Weeks, for example, presents a Banaras that seems airbrushed and sanitised, to minimise that sense of disorder. Here we get a pristine ...

Here are 10 hidden gems of Varanasi that you might want to explore: Shivali Ghat is quieter ... located inside Banaras Hindu University. Bharat Kala Bhavan (Museum inside BHU) It is a well known ...

Deputy Chief Minister and Bengaluru Development Minister D.K. Shivakumar have announced plans to hold a grand Cauvery Aarti at the Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) during Dasara, emphasising the cultural ...