There are cities you visit, and then there are cities that visit you—haunt you, hold you, heal you. Kashi, also known as ...

A new study says that Japan’s Kyoto is the most popular religious tourism destination worldwide, followed by Varanasi in India and Vatican City in Italy.

The Train That Left Me Behind It was a chilly February morning. I was supposed to board the 6:15 AM Vande Bharat Express. But ...

Paintings and maps including pilgrimage charts became popular and were published by Indian presses as well. ... “Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi”, Watercolour on watercolour board, c. 1910.

The enforcement of photography and videography restrictions at the open cremation spaces in Banaras (also Varanasi) has relaxed in recent years, but there was a time when they were strictly prohibited ...

Here is the link to the Google Maps location, and below is the screenshot of the same. The combination image below highlights that the viral video was also from Varanasi's Manikarnika Ghat.

Freelance Hindu groups are on a mission to ‘find’ temples in Varanasi. Mosques, Muslim homes, or often tense Hindu-Muslim ... The grand Alamgir Mosque at Panchganga Ghat. ... University authorities ...

Grand fireworks illuminate the sky on the ghats of River Ganga in Varanasi on the occasion of Dev Deepawali. Dev Deepavali is celebrated on the night of Kartik Purnima, which falls after Diwali.

James Prinsep lived in Varanasi for 10 years and built its still-operational underground sewage system. In 1831, the British scholar drew a lithographic map of the old Kashi Vishwanath temple, and ...

Panchganga and Durga Ghats, Benares, Upper India by Thomas Daniell. Credit: DAG The Orientalists’ Benares i s on display at DAG 1, The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai, and runs until January 14.