Topic: Banaras

From the ghats and religiosity to its weavers and food, Vertul Singh explores Varanasi's culture and history in ‘Banaras’.

Since January, 8 women from BHU and IIT-BHU have reported being harassed. But two recent attacks have turned the campus into a volatile theatre of political protest.

In 'Fire on the Ganges: Life among the Dead in Banaras', author Radhika Iyengar writes how no ‘upper-caste’ Hindu will be willing to perform the task of burning corpses, even if the said work has been ‘glorified’ for centuries as the only way of ‘providing moksha’.