Fiona Birt, Life on the Ganges (TRAVEL 2025)

Over 400 million people live along the Ganges river basin and depend upon this great river for their daily needs. Locals and pilgrims bathe, do their laundry, perform religious ceremonies and bring their deceased to be cremated on the ghats.

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