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- Location(s): Varanasi
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Following the break-up of her relationship and unsure of her life’s direction, Marianne leaves a London still reverberating from the terrorist bombings to travel for a year with the mysterious and beautiful Sara. However, deep into the heart of...
Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context
- Location(s): Varanasi
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1990s
By focusing on contemporary popular religious traditions, the book represents a substantial contribution to the study of modern religious practices in Banaras, holy city of India. This book offers in-depth, ethnographic views of many contemporary popular religious practices that...
- Location(s): Varanasi
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 400 BCE–200 CE
The Kama Sutra is the most widely read treatise on sex ever written, though the man who chronicled all there was to experience between men and women remains, for the most part, a mystery. In The Ascetic of Desire,...
- Location(s): Varanasi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
The exotic and suspenseful New York Times Notable Book that tells the story of an eccentric guest-house keeper in Varanasi, India, and the passions evoked by her sacred city along the Ganges The Lonely Planet recommends the Saraswati Guest House,...