Being India's Kashi or Banaras, Varanasi is known as the City of Lights or as the centerpiece of India's river, the Ganga. It ...

Three poems about a city that dwells in all who dwell in it. Here, even the present is ancient and Ganga becomes an everyday myth. Once the abode of the gods, it’s a city that washes away people ...

The dance drama, choreographed using both the margam ... It’s a fight without weapons, where two vanaras assert their strength. When Rama mortally wounds Vaali, a shocked Vaali enquires about ...

The three main styles of Kathak, or "gharanas," are named after the places where the Kathak dance tradition originated: Jaipur, Banaras, and Lucknow. The early Kathak attire consisted of a ghaghra ...