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Ganges River, India

1996

Steve McCurry

"Locals...use the [Ganges River] in ordinary ways, doing laundry or
washing hair. Devout Hindus are reluctant to believe that a river as
holy as the Ganges is &#039polluted.&#039 Some environmentalists now
use softer language to suggest that Mother Ganges is
&#039suffering.&#039"

(Photographed while on assignment for, but not published in, "India:
Fifty Years of Independence," May 1997, National Geographic magazine)

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