STORY: Devotees took a holy bath in the sacred river and worshipped Goddess 'Ganga', as they wished for the prosperity and welfare of humankind. The festival commemorates the descent of the river on ...

Cain Marcus writes in his project notes for Goddess that the whole “length of the Ganga is believed sacred. Perhaps this belief has caused space to accumulate and become more present and more definite ...

The Ganges River — Ganga in Hindi — is the lifeblood of more than 600 million people in India and Bangladesh. Farmers depend on the river for their crops. Millions depend on its water for washing, ...

Small cradles of chrysanthemums, illuminated by a single candle, flicker in the moonlight, bobbing along the fast-flowing Ganges River. They are offerings. For hundreds of millions of Hindus around ...