A controversial quote attributed to Adolf Hitler mentions cremation rituals at Benares and reveals deep colonial prejudice.

There will be a poignant wartime anniversary tomorrow, but amid all the services commemorating the Battle of Britain and the Blitz this one has crept under the radar. On 17 September 1940, a passenger ...

The steam ship had left Liverpool on 13 September on its 2,500 mile voyage Just before midnight on September 17 1940, the Bech children were among 100 evacuees on board the SS City of Benares, who ...

To Die in Benares, a collection of short stories by acclaimed thespian and professor of theatre, K Madavane makes the invisible visible. These tales, rendered in a variety of genres blending both ...

To read Peggy Payne’s Sister India is to take a harrowing trip down the narrow, winding lanes of the holy city of Benares, India, and to be transported along the dark and treacherous backroads of ...

Critic and Curator Uma Nair has been writing for the past 35 years on art and culture She has written as critic for Times of India and Economic Times. She believes that art is a progressive sojourn.