Banaras: Imagined Landscape, 9788196383305

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Banaras: Imagined Landscape

Gayatri Sinha (Editor)

Synopsis

Banaras, also known as Varanasi, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a central spiritual hub of India. It lies at the heart of India faith and is deeply sacred to Hindus, who believe it to be the ultimate place for achieving moksha (liberation from the cycle of life and death). The citys soul is defined by its ghats, the steps leading to the Ganges River, where p...

Contents: Director's Note, Banaras: Imagined Landscape-Gayatri Sinha, Banares through Foreign Eyes, 1757-1947-Tom Young, Kashi Vishwanath Corridor: Urban Insertion in an Iconic Landscape-Amita Sinha, Visualising Kabir: Painting and Poetics-Gayatri Sinha in Conversation with Gulammohammed Sheikh, Catalogue, About the Editolr, About the Contributors.

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About the author

Gayatri Sinha

Gayatri Sinha (born 1957) is a student of English Literature, Calcutta University, with post-graduate studies in social Communications Media, Bombay. She has written extensively on the arts and is currently art critic with The Hindu, New Delhi. She has edited the volume, Expressions and Evocations - Contemporary Indian Women Artists published by Mart, 1997. On a Ford Foundation grant she curated the exhibition Woman / Goddess that traveled in India and abroad, 1999-2001. In 2001, she wrote monographs on the drawings of Satish Gujral and the art of Gulammohammed Sheikh. Her monograph on Krishen Khanna, supported by a senior fellowship from the Department of Culture, Government of India, was published by Vadehra Art Gallery in 2002.

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