Monsoon Story: Abhishek Jain

This is about the holy Ganga.

This February, I was traveling from Chennai to Lucknow. Kanpur comes in between and that’s where Ganga intersects.

I was very excited that I am gonna see the Ganga for the first time. I was very excited and I started discussing about Ganga with the fellow passengers. They told me that Ganga comes in its full breadth (about 1.5 KM wide span), in Kanpur. They told that how fully flown the Ganga used to be and that pinch is missing now a days.

I was a bit worried to hear that, but thought at least the view should not be like other rivers. To my utter disappointment, I was wrong.

Ganga was flowing only half way through its full breadth. There were crops grown right in the middle on the Ganga. Kids were playing, Excavation machines were being used.

This was February, Monsoon had just passed by and summer had not begun yet. Are we gonna living in a house and say, Ganga used to flow right below my house?

pictures I took while on train, tell the story themselves.