How Art Is Revitalizing a Historic City in India

September 19, 2016

Why Transformation Is Taking Such a Long Time in India and the Role that Art Can Play (September 12, 2016)

At a recent talk, Navneet Rama—founder of the Kriti Gallery & Residency arts center and chair of the Benares Cultural Foundation—discussed ways that artists, environmentalists, conservationists, and political actors are revitalizing communities in the historic city of Varanasi, India, considered to be the holiest site in the world in both Hinduism and Jainism.

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