Tag Archives: Heritage

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

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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

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

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Kennie Ting

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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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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

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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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Bowbazar to (former) Black Town, Calcutta

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Kennie Ting

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Calcutta in its heyday was divided into two main districts – White Town, which was where the British and other Europeans lived their lives and did their business, and Black Town, which was where the local Bengalis resided. Some of … Continue reading →

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Chowringhee Road to the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Kennie Ting

This gallery contains 38 photos.

The second part of my virtual tour of European, or “White” Town, Calcutta, has the armchair traveller exploring the two most fashionable thoroughfares in Calcutta – Chowringhee Road (today’s Jawaharlal Nehru Road), which was the centre of the city’s cultural and … Continue reading →

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(Former) Dalhousie Square & the Financial District, Calcutta

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Kennie Ting

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Calcutta’s former European Town is a large, sprawling, highly-planned city that occupies much of the southern reaches of Central Kolkata today. At its heart is Fort William, the fortified, walled settlement that the English East India Company established here, along … Continue reading →

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