And in between all this, there is a temple in Kashi, or Varanasi as some people call it, that houses a Shivling which grows a little everyday! A Shivling, or the Shivlingam, is a symbol and ...

The idol is a jyotirlinga, one of the 12 jyotirlingas in India. The Kashi Vishwanath temple has been built and re-built several times over the past few centuries. The present temple was built in ...

As the first light breaks over the subcontinent, it paints two distant shores—the ancient ghats of Kashi and the temple-lined coast of Tamil Nadu—in the same golden hue. In this liminal moment ...