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	Publisher: Random House India
	Author Julian Crandall Hollick
	Language: English
	Pages: 279
	Cover: HARDCOVER
	6.5x9.5 inch
	Weight 520 gm
	Edition: 2007
	ISBN: 9788184000030
	HCB799

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About the Book Ganga has always been more than just an ordinary river. For most Indians she is also a goddess Bathing in her is said to dissolve all sin, her water can cure illness, and to die on her banks is to ensure being freed from the cycle of death and rebirth. Yet there remains a paradox: although Indians are devoted to Ganga, they abo exploit her without remorse. Much of her water has been siphoned off for irrigation, toxic chemicals are dumped into her, and dams and barrages have been built on her course causing immense damage. Ganga is in danger of dying - bat if the river dies, will the goddess die too? The question took journalist Julian Crandall Hollick on an extraordinary journey through northern India starting at Gaumukh, going down the Himalayas, past the great cities of Haridwar, Allahabad and Varanasi, to Sagar Island where the river finally meets the sea. Travelling mostly on small country boats the discovered a river people simply do not know: a river that varies from point to point, often abandoned altogether and sometimes no more than a stream. Through his journey, Crandall Hollick looks at all the issues Ganga faces from the Tehri dam which diverts most of her source water to create electricity for Delhi to the Farakka barrage which has wrecked havoc in the villages of Bengal; from Kanpur where the river is at its most polluted to Varanasi, next door, where millions take their holy dip oblivious to the filth. Along the way he encounters priests and pilgrims, dacoits and dolphins; the fishermen who subsist on the river and the villagers whose lives have been destroyed by her. He finds that popular devotion to Ganga is stronger and blinder than ever and it is putting her at risk. Combining travelogue, science and history, Ganga is a fascinating - and troubling - portrait of the river today. It will show you Ganga as you have never seen her before

About the Author Julian Crandall Hollick is an award-winning producer and writer of radio documentaries about Islam and South Asia. Co-founder of Independent Broadcasting Associates Inc., a non-profit media production company based in Massachusetts, he has also been an independent radio producer for NPR, BBC Radio Four and World Service, and CBC in Toronto. He has broadcasted a weekly programme on Radio Midday in Mumbai, written on India in Smithsonian magazine and The New Republic, and been a columnist for The Times of India and The Hindu. Currently, he divides his time between Massachusetts and Provence.

Introduction How Low can Indians pollute Ganga yet at the same time worship her as a goddess? How can so many millions take a 'holy dip' every morning to wash away their sins in a river that is polluted by so much waste, both human and industrial? How does one explain this paradox? The seeds of my obsession were sown at a very early age. When I was a child, my grandmother used to read me to sleep on those long. dark, dreary winter nights in England, with stories about far-off places -mountains, deserts, and rivers such as the Amazon, Mississippi, Nile, Yangtze. They made my own river, the Thames, look like an apology. But Ganga stood out, even then. She was two continents away, but different from the others because she was a holy river that carried you to heaven, like the Styx in Greek mythology. It was the mythology of Ganga that made her special, not just to me as a little boy but to countless Indians who consider her waters to be amrit and dream of dying on her banks to attain moksha. Many rivers on other continents are indeed sacred or holy but no other river in the world is worshipped as a goddess. This is why Ganga is unique. In fact it's hard at first glance to figure out why the physical river should be so venerated.

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