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Dev Diwali Festival
Dev Diwali or Dev Deepawali is a Hindu festival celebrated in the month of ‘kartik’, it is a festival of great pomp in Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh. It is the “Festival of the lights of the gods” and falls on the kartik ‘purnima’ (full moon day), about fifteen days after the celebration of Diwali –…
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Hindu education
The Vedic religions, Buddhism, and Jainism share a regional culture located around northeastern India. Ancient India had two main schools of thought: the Shramana religions and the Vedic religions (the latter continuing today in Hinduism). When a family wishes for their son to become a Hindu priest, they know they must send him to a…
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Walking tour of the old area of Varanasi
Guide in Varanasi: walking tour of the old area. We will visit everything from a traditional gym or Akhara , which follows very ancient training practices, to the vegetable market in the old city, or we will have a cup of masala tea while the applications of aromatherapy and essential oils are explained to us . We will stop at some important temples…
Tourist Guide in Varanasi, Pintu Biki Blog, guided tours in India
Vanarasi, also known as Benares, is my home: to know it is to love it, and I have known and loved it since my birth.
My name is Pintu Biki. If you need a tour guide in Varanasi, I offer you my life experience and more than ten years of guiding in this city located on the banks of the sacred Ganges River.