Varanasi

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Baba holding his child.

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During the welcome at Baba’s home.

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Food preparation at Baba’s home.

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A quiet portrait during the visit.

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Together in front of the camera.

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Another encounter inside the house.

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The household gathering.

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At the doorway.

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Among the participants.

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The devotional setting.

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Recitation and musical accompaniment.

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A page, an instrument and a voice.

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A portrait within the gathering.

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One of the participants.

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Across the generations.

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The work of preparing food.

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Cooking for the gathering.

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A tray of prepared eggplants.

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Outside the house.

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Documentary photograph from the sadhu with the trident, original camera file IMG_4394.

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Documentary photograph from the sadhu with the trident, original camera file _DSC9265.

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Documentary photograph from the sadhu with the trident, original camera file IMG_8974.

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Documentary photograph from the sadhu with the trident, original camera file IMG_8975.

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Documentary photograph from the sadhu with the trident, original camera file IMG_8978.

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Documentary photograph from the sadhu with the trident, original camera file IMG_8981.

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Documentary photograph from the sadhu with the trident, original camera file IMG_8985.

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Documentary photograph from the sadhu with the trident, original camera file IMG_8987.

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Documentary photograph from the sadhu with the trident, original camera file IMG_8989.

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Documentary photograph from the sadhu with the trident, original camera file IMG_8990.

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Documentary photograph from the sadhu with the trident, original camera file IMG_8991.

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Documentary photograph from the sadhu with the trident, original camera file _DSC9264.

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Documentary photograph from the sadhu with the trident, original camera file _DSC9266.

Knowledge

Islam in Varanasi

An introduction to Islam and to the long presence of Muslim communities, mosques, artisans and cultural traditions within Varanasi.

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The Ganges: Sacred River and Living Landscape

The Ganga as sacred presence, ecological system, working river and the physical horizon around which Varanasi’s riverfront life is organized.

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The Ghats: Architecture, Ritual and Public Life

How Varanasi’s stepped riverfront became a network of named places for worship, work, bathing, gathering, festivals and cremation.

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Death, Cremation and Moksha in Varanasi

Religious context for Varanasi’s cremation ghats, funerary rites and traditions linking Kashi with liberation from rebirth.

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Hindustani Classical Music and Varanasi

North Indian classical music, guru-shishya transmission and Varanasi’s longstanding identity as a city of music.

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Threads of Banaras: Silk, Skill and the Lives Behind the Loom

Silk, brocade and the skilled lives behind one of Varanasi’s remarkable textile traditions, photographed during a workshop visit in 2014.

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Colour in Varanasi

In Varanasi, colour emerges from clothing, painted ghats and murals, religious imagery, flowers, ritual fire, signs and the contrast between saturated details and weathered stone.

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Evening Ganga Aarti

Context for the daily riverfront ritual of lamps, coordinated gesture, sound and reverence to the Ganges.

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Varanasi Beyond the Ghats

Learning, music, weaving, craft and the wider religious geography that extend beyond the famous riverfront.

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Varanasi Glossary

A concise guide to recurring names and terms used in the Varanasi journey and Knowledge Centre.