Varanasi: Banaras Hindu University will soon introduce a post-graduation course — Kashi Study — from the next academic session to decipher the mystique of the millennia old city through academia.
In sync with PM Narendra Modi and chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s views on the city’s indigenous culture and ethos, the two-year PG course will encompass all facets of ‘Kashi’, which has always fascinated domestic and foreign scholars.
A seven-member committee headed by the dean of faculty of social science, Prof Kowshal Kishore Mishra, is working on the course framework and is likely to complete it by December 26.
Other distinguished members of the committee include professor of cultural geography Rana PB Singh, Prof Keshav Mishra, noted folk singer Malini Awasthi, veteran journalist Amitabh Bhattacharya, artist Pt Rajeshwar Acharya and Prof Vrinda Paranjape.