15/11/2017
The river Ganga is considered to be the most sacred and pure rivers in India which is worshiped by Hindus all around the globe. The water of this sacred river melts down from the glaciers of Himalayas and flows through the states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, finally draining into the Bay of Bengal.
Apart from agricultural benefits that it gives to the cities it touches, it has mythological significance as well. According to the Hindu mythology, a person who baths in the river Ganga would be cleared of all his/her sins and become pure once again. But is this really the case?
Every year millions of devotees from all over the world come to the land of Sangam, Allahabad, where Ganga meets two other sacred rivers Yamuna and Saraswati. These devotees come to worship this divine river in the festival of Kumbh Mela or Maagh Mela, an age old festival celebrated in the months of January, February and mid-March. Every 12 years there is a grand festival called the Maha Kumbh which attracts even more people than usual.
But the reality of the river’s pureness and divineness has changed. Surely it used to be one of the purest rivers in the world. But through time as we progressed through the industrial revolution, advancement in technology and increase in the population, we started dumping all our wastes into this river. Toxic wastes from factories goes into the laps of Ganga. We somehow, due to our ignorance and carelessness, made our Holy Ganga a crap.
The river Ganga is considered to be the most sacred and pure rivers in India which is worshiped by Hindus all around the globe. The water of this sacred rive...