Save Ganga and Swami By Deepak Parvatiyar (Published in Indian Observor Post on 4th August 2018) http://indianobserverpost.com/News-Detail.aspx?Article=69&WebUrl=web Decades ago, in 1985, Bollywood’s showman late Raj Kapoor had made a Bollywood blockbuster Ram Teri Ganga Maili. In English it means Ram your Ganga is dirty! Though the film was about the physical exploitation of a woman throughout her journey from the hills to the plains, the filmmaker was shrewd enough to make the woman symbolize the Holy Ganga to make it more politically relevant at a time when Rajiv Gandhi had just become the Prime Minister with a landslide victory and also on an election plank of cleaning Ganga! Today both Rajiv and Raj are no more there and the filth has put the Ganga too on ventilator! Today Ganga is breathing poison and this despite the crores that have been pumped into it (at least on papers) to make her clean by removing the toxins from her arterial route ever since
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