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When sacred rivers disappoint spiritual expectations

My family has always said the Ganga is our mother but I have never seen her and when I finally visited last year I was horrified by the pollution and did not know how to reconcile that with my faith.

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Environmental degradation challenges the mythic foundations of inherited religious belief.

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