"Locals...use the [Ganges River] in ordinary ways, doing laundry or washing hair. Devout Hindus are reluctant to believe that a river as holy as the Ganges is 'polluted.' Some environmentalists now use softer language to suggest that Mother Ganges is 'suffering.'"
(Photographed while on assignment for, but not published in, "India: Fifty Years of Independence," May 1997, National Geographic magazine)
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