Haridwar Essays

The Role of Hinduism in Polluting the Ganges River The Ganges River is both holy and polluted. It is two thousand five hundred miles long, and supports half a billion people (The Ganges River). The population is only growing, and with it, so are pollution levels in the Ganges River. Hinduism, practiced by over eighty percent of the people in India, contributes in large part to the devastating pollution of the Ganges River (Ridge). A river that is so depended upon by millions of people, is at the

castes due in fact have sacred specialists, but they do not compare to the statues of a Brahmin” (Kelete, 2015). However, Modern Hinduism do not hold any restrictions on the lower castes. There is in fact a group called Shantikuni Spiritual Center at Haridwar that are working on trying to bring unity toward a land that is interrupted by countless divisions (All World Gayatri Pariwar,

Waterfronts are the edges of water along any urban settlement. People often get attracted towards water and hence the necessity of waterfronts. It is the property of water to reflect, move, change and attract people which captures people’s imagination and provides various opportunities from reaction to business, from being passive to active. Rivers were reason for creation of early human settlements and now they act as an important part of any human settlement. The essay talks about how waterfronts

Description Goddesses Durga the Mahashakti, the form and formless, is the root cause of creation, preservation and annihilation. Durga, meaning "the invincible" is the principal form of the Goddess, also known as Devi and Shakti in Hinduism. According to legend, Durga was created for the slaying of the buffalo demon Mahisasura by Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and the lesser gods, who were otherwise powerless to overcome him. Embodying their collective energy (shakti), she is both derivative from the male