Amitav Ghosh writes in his book Gun Island. Banaras, or Varanasi, or Kashi evokes a sense of the eternal, a city older than history itself, as Mark Twain once observed. It is a place where ...

Kashi is one of the world's oldest cities and that is also known as Varanasi or Banaras. This city has a great cultural, historical, and spiritual significance. The name Kashi comes from the ...

When the prestigious Banaras Hindu University's vice chancellor makes it to the news, there is often a mention of his ...