The story of Bhagiratha and Ganga is as relevant today, if not - TopicsExpress



          

The story of Bhagiratha and Ganga is as relevant today, if not more. As news filters in of the near totality of nature’s devastation in Uttarakhand, it is becoming clear that humans have played their part in exacerbating the sheer scale of the disaster in terms of lives lost and property destroyed. Unchecked construction and increasing encroachment on the flood plains of the Ganga to accommodate more and more residential buildings, hotels and tourist rest houses in the name of development, have extracted a huge human cost for a Sagara-like conquest of the environment. thehindu/opinion/op-ed/when-the-ganga-descends/article4857510.ece
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:51:18 +0000

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