
Maun Mela fishing festival and traffic near twin bridges in Uttarakhand
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Maun Mela, a traditional community fishing festival held along the Aglar River in the Tehri Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India.
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What use is India's GDP when our fishermen have to fish in filthy polluted detergent-ridden waters in Delhi? What a tragedy that someone will actually eat these polluted water fish that have somehow survived the oxygen-deprived waters of a river that has been abused and thrown down the gutter by the ignorance, greed and selfishness of modern India... The Yamuna - Ganges riverine system gives water to north India, yet we drain effluent and detergents into it, and foul its waters. Shame on us... Shame on us for doing this to our rivers! Small Ganpati Visarjan in polluted foaming-over-with-detergent Yamuna river in Delhi. These people can see the effects of humans on the river. Yet, they will introduce coloured idols to the same river, adding to the pollution therein. When religiosity delegat
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