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Captive Ganga [1]

IT is 6 p.m. A couple of Hindu priests and a few men and women wait at the Manikarnika Ghat on the banks of the Bhagirathi, as the Ganga is known in the pilgrim town of Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand. Their heads are turned anxiously in the direction of the river upstream.

Publication Date: 
13/03/2009
Purnima S. Tripathi [2]
Frontline (Chennai) [3]
Tags:
Ganga [4], Ganga Action Plan [5], Hydroelectricity [6], CSE [7], Anil Agarwal [8], Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand) [9], Uttarkashi (T) [10]
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