The Ganges: Holy, Spiritual, At Risk?
Revered and worshipped, full of bacteriophages, the Ganges is now a river of polluted sorrow…
As a child, I grew up reading about the Ganges River, Maa Ganga as it’s called in Indian religious texts. I read and retained that the Ganges is the holiest of all rivers running through India – it’s a sacred river, revered and worshipped as a goddess throughout many of the northern states that it runs through.