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The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
The sky's inclemency stirs up the angry winds;
the watery clouds are soaking with ceaseless rain.
The turbulent Vltava, swollen with rainy waves,
Bursting, impetuous, breaks through its river banks.
I do not know much about gods;but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable ...
In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil!
The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.
On the onside, first there is God, then Sourav Ganguly.
River Tam (Summer Glau): No power in the 'verse can stop me.
A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart
...life is a river
Ladakh's Prakash, Paryavaran, Paryatan are a strength for both J&K and India.
For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
Delhi. The ruins of an old city, markets, monuments, broken mansions, the zigzag of roads, the still
sad times of music past. And rising up from it, her mother, wind in her hair, laughing like a witch.
The deepest rivers make least din.
I caught Bast's arm when she was a few steps from the bank.
"Stay away from the water."
She frowned. "Carter, I'm a cat. I'm not going for a swim. But if you want to summon a river goddess, you really need to do it at the riverbank.
VARANASI TRAFFIC is shambolic. It's a humbling reminder that the British drive on the left side of the road and we (Indians) drive on what's left of the road. "The traffic is not terrible at all," wrote novelist Geoff Dyer. "It is beyond any idea of terribleness. It is beyond any idea of traffic.
Rivers have what man most respects and longs for in his own life and thought-a capacity for renewal and replenishment, continual energy, creativity,cleansing.
J.M. Kauffman
Cleanliness and sanitation were closest to Gandhiji's heart. We will launch a 'Clean India' campaign and by Gandhiji's 150th birth anniversary, all schools in the country should have toilets with separate toilets for girls.
In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.
India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend upon them for irrigation, drinking and industrial water.
Her veins and arteries ran with a bitter fluid, not blood, Adinath exclaimed in fury one day.
A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.
Don't behave in a funny manner. We must have Calcutta in India.
I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.
He wanted to be better than what he was made of. In Mumbai's dirty water, he wanted to be ice ... He wanted to be recognized as better than the dirty water in which he lived. He wanted a verdict of ice.
God has blessed the vale of Kashmir with grace and grandeur. It is a land of lush green meadows, crystal clear springs and lakes, the majestic rivers and streams, the snow white and roaring cataracts, sweet waters, high snow-covered peaks make it a perfect archetype of the promised land of God.
Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.
With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.
And at my feet the pale green Thames
Lies like a rod of rippled jade.
Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If there be a shore that dreads not the fury of the faithless billows, it is some poor and narrow inlet unknown to the winds.
Har-ki-doon was situated on the northeast end of the Tons River Valley in Uttaranchal, India. A stunning piece of highland at the confluence of a trio of glaciers, it displayed in every direction the magnificence of the Himalayan Mountains -
Amazing tributaries feeding where the rivers will never flow....
Being a Bengali, one is surprised when all the endless spume and froth of talk suddenly reveals itself to be the front of a gigantic wave of action.
"This is Lakshmi Singh." It's like a tadpole dying in muck. Take a drink. Wet your mouth.
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
... where mountains are sacred & where risk & death are constant companions- the Himalayas.
A river reaches places its source never knows.
No, I don't want to talk about River. I have nothing to say about it that I would want to be public.
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.
Ruby clapped her hands in glee and gave a comedic wiggle of her head, Bollywood style.
I know the song now, can even sing it, but back then all I heard was the verdant Punjabi, the striking primary colours of the five rivers, the intricate history of a complex land.
I am in the river now. I must have fallen. And I am in this river.
And I am just washed away
by the current of
the river.
This is not a river. It is just a small
rivulet.
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
By the twelfth day of his fast, Raju himself has become a tourist attraction. Before an enormous crowd and an American television crew, the starving man is helped down to the drought-stricken river to pray:
Growing up in Delhi, one gets addicted to pollution.
"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.
And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow and heavy with the silt of the plains, and by the time it got to The Shades even an agnostic could have walked across it. It was hard to drown in the Ankh, but easy to suffocate.
Stream is stream.
An array of colorful camps dotted the river banks, like a Garrison of army on a peace keeping mission. A mini India; many great nations; different people living in the same place, an inversion of the notion of nation.
In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.
Delhi: This place is inself an oxymoron.
Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.
Water you dead bastard
Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.
If there is no room in the river,
swim to the ocean.
Floating down the river, I could not keep my eyes off the Potala; I knew the Dalai Lama was on the roof looking at me through his telescope. On
Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'
Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
The world is the body and Delhi its life.
One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.
I am the place where two rivers meet, silted with upheaval and loss.
Water Source and earthbound substance in endless theme and variation. There is need of rest, renewal and appreciation of the ever-changing landscape.
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
The time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.
What a number of things a river does, by simply following Gravity in the innocence of its heart!
I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin
With heavy rainfall, the river will overflow its banks.
I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water ... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.
Indra Haiku
Diddling Ahala,
Indra, the Thousand-Eyed God,
flecked with vaginas.
The incredible length of Bombay sped by, those endless sprawls of buildings, huts and shacks, children squatting and shitting by the tracks, refuse, the crowded grey roads twisting and winding between, all of it blurred but fearsome in its strength, in its very life that grew it unstoppably.
You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.
An individual human existence should be like a river
River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.
Love water, protect it:
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people ... We are a nation rich in rivers.
Ngari-ngari - literally
The Nile is mine; I made it,
To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.
This budget is a Sanjeevani (new life) and an Arunoday (sunrise) for the last man in the line. This budget converts hopes and aspirations of the people into trust. It adds a new ray of hope for the poor and downtrodden sections of the society.
Our body is a moulded river
We all know you went to India,India-- E. Lockhart
Huh! It is only a pahari," said Kim over his shoulder. "Since when have the hill-asses owned all Hindustan?"
The retort was a swift and brilliant sketch of Kim's pedigree for three generations.
Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life.
Wondered to see, these luscious Flowers' 'Blossoming everywhere, like drops of Shower' 'WISH! My ecstasy would has that Power' 'Days come true! those for me, are so Far' ~Samar Sudha
Love is the world's river of life
When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it
Globally, the highest number of irrigation projects are in India, and within the country, the highest number is in Maharashtra.
India, the new myth
a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.
The headwaters of Shit Creek are a cruel and treacherous expanse.
India is my kid sister.
The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.
Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.
The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.
From RIVER
My body is filled with sand. The heavy grains flow from my eyes and seek somewhere to fall.
Speak to me friends. Tell me I am free to go now, for I need to sit alone in the sun on the river bank, juggling pebbles.