NARRATOR: As the Ganges flows across the plains of northern India, it slows and starts to meander, changing its direction. During the monsoon rainy season, flooding can stretch the river to 15km ...

is one of the several tributaries of the Ganga, as the holy river flows down from the Himalayas and snakes its way through the plains. The tributaries intersect, flow into one another or meander ...

is one of the several tributaries of the Ganga, as the holy river flows down from the Himalayas and snakes its way through the plains. The tributaries intersect, flow into one another or meander ...

India's Ganges River is a paradox: The mighty river's tributaries are cool, Himalayan-glacier fed springs. But where the river meets Indian subcontinent's highly populated cities, and pours out ...

It is in this context that the flow of Ganga is divided into four stages: the mountainous stage, the boulder stage, the river in the alluvial plain, and the river in the delta. The river meander ...

A man brushes his teeth as he stands in the polluted water of Ganges river in Kolkata, India. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri India's holy Ganges begins as a crystal clear river high in the icy ...

Every twelve years, tens of millions of men, women and children gather on the flood plain of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers in Allahabad, India, for the Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of humanity ...

And in Hinduism, rivers are seen as personifications of Goddesses. Be it Maa Ganga, Maa Yamuna, or else. The Ganga river, or Ganges as she is called in the West, is one of the most holy rivers in ...

But to actually be in the river was quite another thing. The centuries were on the Ganga’s side and it was part of my ‘hard-wiring’. There was no escaping that hold. This uncontrollable rush ...