How can Indians Worship a river as Goddess? How can people pollute the river and yet call the river as Goddess? How could people pollute the river and say the sins of the believers are washed away? How can the paradox of believing the river in the form of goddess in one hand and performing acts that leads to the rape of the river in other hand could be explained
Will Ganges the goddess die if the river did? Is it faith, literally blind to the extreme stress it puts its goddess through, whether it be plastic bags, dead bodies, or human waste thrown in and from which the river is believed to cleanse itself miraculously, that is killing the river?
Is urban India’s insatiable thirst sucking the river dry? A whole culture to blame for its own imminent demise. The devotion in Ganges is stronger and blinder than ever and that is killing its sanity. The devotion of Ganges is unparalleled by the virtue of the people who are killing it without any remorse. Ganges for Indians is more than just a river.
In the minds and hearts of Indians the solution to this paradox is the stupid cold-blooded feeling that makes them feel; what is the problem if we pour our garbage into the river and suck her dry? Ganges can always survive and purify herself.
Precisely, she is goddess. The state of Yamuna across Delhi is what we Indians want to happen to the largest perennial river of India, sacred mother Goddess Ganga.
PS: Ganges is anglicized name of the river Ganga, which is called as Ganga in Hindi and most other Indian languages.
To be continued…
