Moni

Holy Poluted Ganges

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October 12th 2009
My 15 hour overnight train to the epicenter for Hinduism arrived at about 9:30a. I spent the majority of the morning roaming around the ghats (steps) of the river Ganges and observing the multitude of people dipping their bodies into the sewage of a river. The irony of a water polluted with dead bodies and sewage is the same water which is said to cleans their souls and allow them passage into ... read more

Asia » India

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more