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Ganges

Flames for survival

Fire on the Ganges is an insightful yet compassionate book that hits hard with its bare facts by examination of the systemic gaps within a highly stratified society that systematically marginalises the specific community of the Doms, depriving them of even the basic remnants of humanity.

‘The Goddess of eternity’

What better time to take stock of all this than on Kali Puja, the day of the celebration of women’s empowerment and that too from Kalighat, this blessed place by the Adi Ganga.

Ganga erosion

Flood management and restoration schemes are imperative to save lives and livelihood. Not wholly unrelated are the fragile embankments that tend to break up during heavy rain and high tides. Perhaps it is cause for alarm that over the past two decades, an estimated 2,800 hectares of fertile land had been washed away by the river; the damage to properties, public and private, amounted to Rs 1,000 crore.

Battling to save a river

Vikas Chandra, more popular as Guddu Baba, is a veritable one-man army. He has taken upon himself the task to save the Ganges which flows by Patna, after leaving the job of a college lecturer to become a full-time campaigner.