Author Archives: Kennie Ting

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About Kennie Ting

I am a wandering cityophile and pattern-finder who is pathologically incapable of staying in one place for any long period of time. When I do, I see the place from different perspectives, obsessive-compulsively.

Eight Months In, or the Insidious-Amazing Way in which the Museum just creeps into your System and TAKES OVER

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Kennie Ting

This gallery contains 20 photos.

When I first got the job, someone – a good friend of mine who just so happens to be the other Director of a National Museum (there aren’t that many – you know who you are) warned me that I … Continue reading →

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Nadesar Palace, Benares (Varanasi)

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Kennie Ting

This gallery contains 17 photos.

Nadesar Palace is a dream of a boutique hotel. First built by the East India Company in the late 1700s, it was then taken over by the Maharajah Prabhu Narain Singh of the Royal House of Benares from 1889, and … Continue reading →

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Old Town Varanasi and Benares Cantonment

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Kennie Ting

This gallery contains 27 photos.

Further inland from the river, beyond the ghats, lie two different parts of Benares. The first is its sprawling, bustling old town; the second, lying even further afield, is the Cantonment, built by the British when they too, found their … Continue reading →

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A Wander through the Ghats of Benares (Varanasi), Part Two

Posted on April 12, 2017 by Kennie Ting

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Part Two of this wander through the legendary ghats of Benares takes in Dashashmewadh Ghat to Panchganga (“five river”) Ghat.  Beyond Panchganga, I venture no further, nor would the river boats take me onwards. There are three major ghats here worth … Continue reading →

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A Wander through the Ghats of Benares (Varanasi), Part One

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Kennie Ting

This gallery contains 26 photos.

The main event in the sacred city of Benares, are its supposedly 87 ghats, which the grand tourist can take in from end to end in a single, three hour walk, or an hour-long boat-ride on the Ganges River. I … Continue reading →

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The Grand Tour III-2: Sacred City… Benares (Varanasi)

Posted on April 2, 2017 by Kennie Ting

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Benares is old. Older than the other cities on this Grand Tour. Older than most cities… It rises, like a mirage, on the west bank of the mighty Ganges River. It is a port city, but of souls first and … Continue reading →

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ACM = ASIAN CULTURE & MUSIC: a festival of traditional performing arts by the Singapore River

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Kennie Ting

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This past weekend, without much fanfare, the first programming series I initiated as Director of Asian Civilisations Museum kicked in. This is the Asian Culture & Music, or ACM Series – kudos to my Audience Team for the clever name! … Continue reading →

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Resolution for 2017: Acts of Rebellion, Great and Small

Posted on December 27, 2016 by Kennie Ting

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This time last year, I made a resolution to Laugh More and Laugh Easily, because to laugh more is to be more thankful, to have clarity of purpose and to be able to let go. I must say that on the … Continue reading →

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The (Oberoi) Grand Hotel, Calcutta

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Kennie Ting

This gallery contains 11 photos.

The Grand Hotel is, as its name suggests, the grande dame of the Calcutta hospitality scene. Located, as it was and still is, on Chowringhee Road, it is situated right in the centre of the city’s social and entertainment scene. … Continue reading →

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Kalighat, Dakshineshwar and the Hooghly Waterfront, Calcutta

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Kennie Ting

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No visit to Calcutta is complete without a day-trip to two of its most important Hindu temples and pilgrimage sites, and without a stroll along the city’s waterfront from Prinsep Ghat to Babughat – perhaps the most Romantic spot in … Continue reading →

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