Banaras Ghats for Unesco World Heritage List

Banaras Ghats for Unesco World Heritage List Inviting you to add to this voice of making a consolidated effort to save our ancient heritage from getting lost to time..OUR TIME!

The World Heritage List includes 962 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which it considers as having outstanding universal value for the world. From India of the 29 listings, amongst others, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai and the Mountain Railways of India, have made it to the list thanks to the efforts of the local authorities. But Banaras, considered one of the ol

dest continuously inhabited cities in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varanasi), and the oldest in India, has never been proposed to be listed! Banaras Ghats have been in a continuous process of deterioration and a lot of its millenia old heritage is getting lost to our recklessness. Getting the UNESCO World Heritage Listing, will not only give them a new lease of life, but also be able preserve these ancient, legendary ghats for the coming generations, and save them from becoming a stack of falling cards in our lives!

02/04/2013

Just a view of whats the status of our Ghats today...age old heritage that makes Benaras ghats what they are..is going..it may be gone sooner than we know..unless...

Why do we need a UNESCO World Heritage status?
02/04/2013

Why do we need a UNESCO World Heritage status?

06/01/2013

Namaste!
Thanks for joining a humble start that may well become the beginning of a process of change and an improved awareness of our cultural reality!
Please feel free to share stories, pictures, articles, views here till we achieve our goal.
If nothing more, invite your friends to be part of this so we can grow in numbers and make a difference!
We shall continue to post information and updates in this direction in the coming days.

06/01/2013

UNESCO wants Banaras on the World Heritage List, but we don't!

VARANASI: Neither the Unesco nor the government, but people of this city and local bodies will have to show determination in seeing the name of their historical city on the Unesco list of world...

06/01/2013

For those who are interested in the current status

VARANASI: Though efforts have been made for the conservation of the rich heritage of Varanasi, the millennia-old living city still faces threat to its places of heritage importance. A total of 29...

Photo Courtesy : Maharaj Wahi
06/01/2013

Photo Courtesy : Maharaj Wahi

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