Benaras: The Eternal City

joybhowmik · 12th July 2014, 17:31

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Originally Posted by v&v

Joy, beautifully narrated and nice snaps. We had to skip Banaras visit during our trip to Allahabad Maha Kumbh. Your TL is a virtual tour of Ghats..

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Originally Posted by srikrishna717

Beautiful Travelogue! Such a vibrant place !
Your pictures of the Aarati are superb!

Thanks for sharing

Thanks v&v and srikrishna717. Glad you liked it.

gd1418 · 13th July 2014, 11:19

Joy, I'm from Benaras and visit off and on. Your travelogue, so lucidly written interspersed with photographs, brought my childhood back - the narrow lanes, the pandas, the hot matar waale kachoris, Rabri-malai, the massive bulls blocking the way and what not.

Thank you for taking me back in time.

joybhowmik · 14th September 2014, 22:45

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Originally Posted by gd1418

Joy, I'm from Benaras and visit off and on. ...

Thank you for taking me back in time.

GD sir,
I just noticed your personal comment on this thread, and felt appropriate to pay my personal tribute to you, through this classic Bollywood song. It speaks so much of one of the three Rasas of Benaras... the Banarasi Paan, I think this is one of the things you must have grown up with!

I know it will bring a smile to your lips, wherever you are, and I wish you eternal peace, and your loved ones the strength and fortitude to bear your absence from this earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I08ex7M5WTw

rudraksh2005 · 15th September 2014, 00:10

Joy, Excellent travelogue, evocative of the beauty of Benares. I really do need to make the visit!
BTW if i am not mistaken you are an Ex Columban- if yes, we were classmates around 3 decades ago and we meet again through the pages of Team-BHP.

adisan · 24th November 2021, 16:30

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Originally Posted by joybhowmik

From times immemorial to present, men, great and small, of every denomination have come to its folds, felt blessed.

Nice write-up and photos. Reminds me of my own trip more than 5 years back.

Benares was never on my list, I got called there. A colleague who wanted to visit Benares, but did not know Hindi and did not prefer a packaged tour either, invited me to join. I refused twice, still he persisted. Am I thankful for that!

A once-in-a-lifetime experience even for a person who has been on countless spiritual trips. I can still remember the trip like it was yesterday.

Hoping to visit Benares again.

13th July 2014, 11:19	#17
gd1418 Senior - BHPian Join Date: May 2006 Location: Gurgaon Posts: 3,578 Thanked: 728 Times View My Garage	Re: Benaras: The Eternal City Joy, I'm from Benaras and visit off and on. Your travelogue, so lucidly written interspersed with photographs, brought my childhood back - the narrow lanes, the pandas, the hot matar waale kachoris, Rabri-malai, the massive bulls blocking the way and what not. Thank you for taking me back in time.
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rudraksh2005 BHPian Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: bangalore Posts: 29 Thanked: 16 Times	Re: Benaras: The Eternal City Joy, Excellent travelogue, evocative of the beauty of Benares. I really do need to make the visit! BTW if i am not mistaken you are an Ex Columban- if yes, we were classmates around 3 decades ago and we meet again through the pages of Team-BHP.
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