Victor Mallet's book tells why Ganga cleanliness drive failed miserably
The value of Victor Mallet's book, River of Life, River of Death, is that it marshals familiar facts so compellingly that one comes away with a clear sense of what's to be done and why we have failed to do it.
So many rivers of ink have flowed on that eternal Indian paradox, the sacredness of the Ganga and its shockingly filthy state, that I started reading Victor Mallet's latest book with a strong sense of deja vu. The facts about staggering domestic and industrial pollution, falling water
