The Government of India declared the holy river GANGA as a "national river" on 4 Nov 2008. For the first time in the history of India, a river has been given the status of national river. The Ganga river basin is the lifeline for millions sprawling across Himalayas of Nepal and India,...
It is a major left bank tributary of Ganga River. After travelling a distance of about 300 km through West Champaran, East Champaran, Muzaffarpur, Gopalganj, Siwan, Saran, Vaishali and Hajipur in the alluvial plain region, it joins the river Ganga at Hajipur near Patna. Locally, it is ...
pay homage to Goddess Ganga and then start covering the trekking trail to Bhojbasa. You will be spending almost 5 hours to reach the camping site and then on reaching there you will be attending the lecture on tent pitching and selection of campsite after considering several aspects of mountai...
Kuchi ganga naa ya yakutatan. - A smooth talker is a good-for-nothing person. Kutubaa. Jin chikee. - Spend words as efficiently as money. Kutuba noo ushikumaran. - A word can't be recalled once spoken. Shikinoo chui shiihii shiru kurasuru. - Let's live helping each other in...
But who was I to decide? Wasn't I inevitably trying to control what I saw as "different"? The distortions in my postcolonial vision continued right till the endThe Gangais the river of Indiabeloved of her peopleround
the Whanganui River through legislation, and the Uttarakhand High Court in India declared the Ganga, Yamuna and their tributaries living entities (although soon after, the Supreme Court of India stayed this judgement, leaving it currently sub judice [Salmi v State of Uttarkhand and others, 2017]...
However, resomation would enable consistency in the Hindu ritual of depositing the ashes following cremation in the Ganga or the Yamuna (or local river or sea) which symbolizes ‘the final departure or ‘seeing off’ of the ātman on its journey to the next life’ (Firth 1997, p. 90);...