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Ganges River: India's dying mother
- jzawodn 10y agoWow, someone needs to talk to an interaction designer. That "scrolling" behavior gives me a headache.
- marak830 10y agoI actually enjoyed it. May have been my device size though(note 3).
- swayvil 10y agoditto. Obnoxious layout thing, whatever you call it.
- priyankc 10y agoon the contrary, i found it to be a great experience. i dunno which browser / device you are using.
- WiseWeasel 10y agoThis story actually showed me how I've been doing parallax scrolling effects wrong this whole time. Showing two fixed background images at once with a scrolling transition between them is kinda neat, and something not possible with my previously flawed understanding of how to implement the effect. When done right, the effect provides an intuitive break to process one morsel of data before starting the next. It's like a web page's version of a chapter marker, allowing for compartmentalization while maintaining simple navigation.
- jkdkfgkhlkhsdfg 10y ago"Hindus revere the Ganges as a god. They believe she came down from heaven to cleanse the Earth, and that bathing in her waters can wash away a person’s sins." What a bunch of bullshit by some random westerner who does not understand jack shit. It is quite common knowledge that in the divine sense of Ganga, she originates from the dreadlocks of Lord Shiva and thus is a manifestation of purity in some sense. Mount Kailash is generally understood as the abode of The Destroyer (of evil). Do write about the pathetic state in which the river is in. That is being factual. Don't bring in the religious angle. That is just stepping into territory that is very difficult to grasp from a western perspective.
- azm 10y agoummmm no. http://www.ancient.eu/Ganges/ http://www.ancient.eu/Ganges/
- jkdkfgkhlkhsdfg 10y agoummmm...yes. ancient.eu. That is just one myth. I have heard atleast 2-3 from my paati. They are all stories. That is what the author/you doesn't/don't get. edit: lol...someone butthurt and downvoting.
- orthoganol 10y agoHaving just spent some time at Varanasi, it is definitely widely believed bathing in the river and having your cremated ashes thrown in it has religious benefits. In just 1 day over 200 people were cremated at a temple close to where we were staying to have their ashes dumped in the river. I think it would be hard to just ignore the religious angle.
- sp332 10y agoActually it was the Swami who was quoted as saying "People think Ganga can take care of my sins".
- piyush_soni 10y agoYes, it was a mistake to call it god, but I think that can be excused. At least almost every religious Hindu still believes that bathing in Ganges can wash away his/her sins, so that part is correct. Bringing religious angle is important here to show that it should be even more important for us to keep it clean.
- vithlani 10y agoLOL...This was supposed to be the thuggish prime minister's 'local' election issue -- he fought from that constituency promising to clean up 'Mother Ganga'. 3 Years in and it's as filthy as ever. Of course, that makes him eminently qualified for re-election.
- naveen99 10y agoDirty is not dead for rivers. The water is still useful for irrigation and industry, and electricity, which is most of its economic use. And the source of the water doesn't die from downstream dirt...
- known 10y agoIndian regime has to build a 5000 km fence along Ganga river perimeter.