Varanasi (Banaras or Kaashi) The religious capital of Hinduism & the oldest suviving civilisation shows the way


Twin bomb attacks in March that killed 15 people in Hinduism’s holy city of Varanasi aroused fears of a repeat of the Hindu-Muslim violence that wracked the Indian state of Gujarat in 2002.

 

But those fears have not been realised.

 
A view of Varanasi ghats
 
Varanasi, it appears, seems to have shown the way to peace.

 

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One response to “Varanasi (Banaras or Kaashi) The religious capital of Hinduism & the oldest suviving civilisation shows the way

  1. Vijay

    Gujarat had Modi and Banaras does not.

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