Saraswati Nandini Majumdar
Author of Banaras: Walks Through India\'s Sacred City. Nandini is associated with NIRMAN, a non-profit organization based in Varanasi that works for education, the arts and international exchange (www.nirman.info).
By Saraswati Nandini Majumdar
He has done little so far and has not shown, through his other actions, that his ideas are particularly visionary or humane.
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They focus on simulating the effect of a spectacle rather than bringing the worshipper spiritually closer to the 'holy' river.
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Little progress has been made towards the development of the PM's constituency at a basic level, let alone as a heritage city.
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This alternate, living, open, generous, humane, non-elitist philosophy and practice of the arts in Banaras has a beautiful gossamer texture.
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Temsutula Imsong and Darshika Shah's campaign was a true and refreshing reaction to PM Modi's cleanliness drive.
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Handloom silk is now extremely difficult to find anywhere in Banaras; older weave patterns and motifs are also rarely found.
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His passing alerts us to the tenuousness of the Banaras school of music and dance, and, by extension, to other such "schools" all over India.
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Classes are collectively forgotten about and at the faculty of performing arts, the ‘Purvacharya’ annual concert is ‘postponed’.
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The mela hardly serves as a dynamic meeting ground for the music community.
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It is unsurprising that a venture so full of promise as this demonstrated a lack of imagination.
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