“Varanasi feels like a very queer city to me,” says artist Debashish Paul, speaking of his adopted home where he presently lives and works since finishing his Masters’ in sculpture from the Banaras Hindu University in 2021. For his first solo exhibition, A Thousand Years of Dreaming, at Kolkata’s Emami Art, he channels “the playfulness, colours […]
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It’s 6 am on a chilly December morning when audiences board a boat that meanders through the river Ganga. As the boat docks at the Guleria Ghat, the anticipation heightens. On disembarking, they are greeted by a breathtaking sight of the sunrise and the mist enveloping the Ganga, heralding the seventh edition of the Mahindra […]
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Film director Nithish Sahadev on the location of Falimy. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT There is a spelling mistake in the title of the Malayalam movie Falimy, but that is deliberate, explains debutant Nithish Sahadev about his film. “It is a clue to the error in the ways and thinking of a dysfunctional family. We […]
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Every region in India has its own version of paan and almost everyone in India eats, if not loves, it. But there is something about Banarasi paan that sets it apart. Is it the leaf, the ingredients, or is it the preparation? It is hard to pick but one thing is clear, there is no […]
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The two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Tourism Ministers’ meeting began on Friday in Varanasi with a likely joint action plan on the development of cooperation in tourism to be adopted during the gathering. The plan will include promotion of the cultural heritage of the SCO member states, promotion of the SCO tourism brand, sharing and […]
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Dadi Pudumjee is the picture of calm though he claims to be nervous. In Varanasi for the premiere of his show Dohé Jo Mohé on Kabir and his teachings, the veteran puppeteer and Padma Shri recipient, appears to be at ease listening to soul-stirring music and engrossing conversations at Guleria Ghat, one of the two […]
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Running of the two trains has been a long-pending demand of rail users from the region; Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy and Rajya Sabha member G.V.L. Narasimha Rao bring the issue to the notice of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Running of the two trains has been a long-pending demand of rail users from the region; […]
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The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) today collaborates with the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) to serve as a knowledge partner for the ‘Kashi Tamil Sangamam’, an initiative of the Government of India. The initiative aims to bring the academic, economical, social and cultural relationship between Varanasi and Tamil Nadu to light. Interested candidates can register […]
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit his Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi on Thursday to inaugurate and lay the foundation of various development and infrastructure projects. This will be PM Modi’s first visit to Varanasi after his party’s resounding win in the Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. On Thursday, Modi will inaugurate Akshay Patra’s midday […]
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