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A Mother's Day gift to the Ganges
Posted on Sun , 13 May '12
Residents of Varanasi, found a rather unusual way to celebrate International Mother's Day, as a large number of them thronged the banks of the river Ganges, and volunteered to help clean the river that is revered as a mother in the region. Both devotees and aesthetes assembled at the city's famed Dashashvamedh Ghat, wading into the water to pull out the trash, while schoolchildren picked up brooms to sweep the banks clean. The residents said that their campaign was a support to the penance of the city's ascetics, who were trying to pressure the Central Government to take a serious note of the matter.
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