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Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
- Location(s): Varanasi, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This book is in 2 parts – the first part is set during the Biennale, journalist Jeff drinks and snorts his way in and out of social events, and has a short affair with Laura, an American gallery director....
- Location(s): Varanasi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1980s
The young Brahman Samar has come to the holy city of Benares to complete his education and take the civil service exam that will determine his future. But in this city redolent of timeworn customs, where pilgrims bathe in...
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): 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,...
- 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,...