“Most of my paintings are done during dusk when the shades in the sky are orangish ... by the beauty and calmness that the sacred city of Varanasi offers him. Crowning the city is the Ganges ...

“With real zari, over 15 meenakari shades in a refined kadwa technique ... and taking the heritage of Varanasi forward with nuance, imagination, and unwavering intent,” they sum up.

On a sunny November afternoon in Varanasi last year, I was standing under the shade of a huge neem tree in the courtyard of Mumukshu Bhawan guest house (‘'House of Those Seeking Salvation’).

In Haloi?s works, Varanasi is quite unlike Ramkumar?s famous evocation of the city with bold, broad strokes. In Haloi, the succession of steps is either horizontal or are in an inclined plane, ...

VARANASI, India — On a recent Friday afternoon in this holy city in northern India, scooters, pedestrians and cycle rickshaws jostled for space on a street leading to the city's most famous ...