Actually when I began to post blogs on my website, I should have done so from Haridwar. Sometimes, some experiences are so dear to your heart that you don’t feel like sharing them, just you float on the ecstasy that is experienced bysheer visiting the place. I never even imagined that one day, I would be standing on the ghats of Gangamai, at Haridwar. Because looking at the prospects of leisure travel at that time, it looked to be a remote possibility that time. But Lord Shiva,my presiding deity willed otherwise, I could visit Haridwar, all of a sudden unplanned.
Haridwar, first time I visited, it was in the month of December, the Ganges water was at its chilliest. We could not even dip our finger in the flowing chill waters of Ganges; we shuddered at the thought of taking a bath in river,eventually we did take bath.
The Ganges’s charismatic presence is dominant in the day to day affairs of the city. Be it a Kankhal or Chandidevi or at Manasadevi, you never leave the track of the Ganges. They say , nowadays the Ganga is polluted, but to me I found the water reasonably clean ,may be I was taking bath at the times of Kumbh-Mela, when all the factories and all other polluting sources were banned. The water was crystal clear. No river in India for that matter has remained unpolluted, thanks to mankind. Man has still not realized, the extent of damage done to the environment. My heart is weeping, helplessly. When these policy makers’s will ever come to senses? My argument is pollution created by human beings is not at all a threat, it’s the industry, and can these industrial belts be located on seashore as an option? If they are located in the countryside they may pollute the ground water. A thought worth giving a try !
I think we should be more responsible in utilizing our great natural resources. Many a time’s, I feel the earlier generation was more environment-friendly & the modernization and above all the mankind’s apathy towards the nature have created lots of problems due to which our future generations may have to pay a dear price for survival.
Sorry for the deviation from the main blog.
Coming back to Haridwar….. .Well connected with New Delhi and Dehradun, There are good no of good quality hotels, the food is also good (strictly vegetarian). Being a gateway to Himalayas & Chardhams, lots of devotees and tourist flock the place round the year, a reasonably cheap place, and modes of transport also cheap. my children like the food served at the restaurants “Invitation “and Le Grand , my home away from home. I was surprised to find an exclusive pickle shop on the Ranipur road.
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Hi, good post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for posting. I’ll definitely be coming back to your site.