The “ EIGHT ” Wonders of Indian “ LIVES” :: the “ EIGHT ” fabulous Rivers

Rivers in India have been a lifeline of several civilisations since ages.

Every river has a story attached to it. Some are worshipped, considered goddesses and even declared as nature's wonder.

From time immemorial. the rivers have always been the life and the HEART THROBS of the people all over the World and say What is the River  “ Mississippi ”  to the USA is what the river  “ Nile ”  to Egypt and the same is for the river “ GANGES ” for India

These rivers infact FEEDS and keeps the people  alive in their countries and it helps in farming and agriculture which is the greatest advantage that the river provides to the one’s and sundries in their respective countries.

The slit that at times that they produce goes in a long way to maintain not only the balance of the ecology but it keeps the  RIVER PRODUCT that again is the livelihood of so many an inhabitants alive and to the hilt. That is the basic importance of the rivers.

If we talk about geography, based on their source, Indian rivers are classified as - ::  

 “ Himalayan Rivers and Peninsular Rivers ” .

The major Himalayan rivers are the Indus river, Ganga river, Yamuna, and the Brahmaputra.

The major Peninsular rivers are Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna and Cauvery.

The Himalayan rivers are best for white water sports like rafting and other river sports. The EIGHT rivers are counted as the holy rivers of India, one of the most holiest river in India is Ganga or The Ganges. 

Rivers are India’s lifeline and enjoy a special place in prayers and its traditional practices. Most of the holy places in India like, Varanasi, Haridwar, Talakaveri, Nasik, Ujjain and Patna are situated along with the bank of seven holy rivers. The Triveni  Sangam in Allahabad is a confluence of 3 rivers the Ganges, Yamuna, and the mythological Saraswati river. 

The peninsular Rivers in India include the Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna, Cauvery, Narmada, and Tapti or Tapi. Together they drain a significant portion of rural India. These rivers carry both religious and cultural significances in the lives of Indian people.


 

Peninsular Rivers in India ::

What is Peninsular one might ask me and like to know it from me. It is a country which is surrounded by the  “ THREE OCEANS ” or maybe the sea or the combination of both and has a huge big  “ mountain ” guarding it from one side for example we have the three waters based sea or Ocean  on the three different side of India surrounding India and they are “ Bay Of Bengal ”, “ Indian Ocean ” and “ Arabian Sea ” and the  “ HIMALAYAS ”  on the fourth front of it

Peninsular India is sapped by five important river systems and they are as follows:

• Godavari
• Mahanadi
• Penner
• Krishna
• Cauvery

The geography and weather of Peninsular India are two superseding forcible checks influencing the rivers of Peninsular India. Through influencing the flora and soil of the territory, giving life to the faunas, checking and controlling the the weather and binding the  geography become two important deciding elements of the sediment logical natures and the entire procedure of soil corrosion, silting, and transfer factors in every catchment area of the river.

It is in this fact and feature that the importance of the water and the elements very important in providing that ie the sea and the RIVERS plays and finds and very important place and here we/I shall present the facts and the tales of the importance of the rivers of India.

The most important of the  “ eight ” rivers are explained and illustrated here as under-:

1). The River Ganges

The Ganges, originates in the Himalayas at  “ Gaumukh ” flowing into the Bay of Bay of Bengal is the most sacred river of India and the longest river in India. The river has been declared as India’s “ National River ” and the Gange dolphins are also declared as the national aquatic animal of India. There are so many tributary to the Ganga like Yamuna, Chambal, Betwa and one of the major is  the Ghaghara, which meets it before Patna. Varanasi is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, it has has hundreds of temples so called “City of Temples” is situated along the banks of the Ganges.

There are two major dams in gange river one is The Haridwar Dam and another is Farakka. One of the longest road bridge in India named as Mahatma Gandhi Setu is build on river Gange at Patna. The mouth of River Ganga forms a vast delta, the Sundarban delta  which is the largest delta in the world, Also these river’s create some of the beautiful valley’s in India.

2). The River Yamuna

Yamuna River is a major river and most polluted river of the Indian subcontinent, rising form Yamunotri in the Himalaya Mountains and merges with the Ganges at Triveni Sangam, Allahabad, the site for the Kumbha Mela. This is one of the country’s most sacred rivers, Gokul and Mathura on the other bank of the river are holy places for Hindu. 

The Tons, Chambal and Giri rivers are the important tributaries of Yamuna,River Mandakini is the last tributaries of river Yamuna before it joins The Gange in Allahabad. The famous Taj Mahal is situated on the bank of the holy Hindu river Yamuna in Agra. One of the famous Naini Bridge builds across the Yamuna river

3). The River Narmada

The Narmada is one of the most sacred of the seven holy rivers of India. Narmada River originates from the Maikala ranges at Amarkantak in Madhya Pradesh and flows between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges in a generally southwestern direction and emptying into the Gulf of Khambhat or  Gulf of Cambay, an inlet of the Arabian Sea India. The Narmada valley has many waterfalls, Dhuandhar waterfall and deepest waterfall Kapiladhara are best of them. 

Sardar Sarover Dam one of the India’s most controversial dam projects was builds across the Narmada river. Narmada Bridge is the Longest Road Bridge in Gujarat. Narmada River is one of only three major rivers in peninsular India that runs from east to west along with the Tapti River and Mahi River. The Hindu God Lord Shiva Omkareshwar temple on the banks of Narmada river situated in the Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh also this district host India’s largest water reservoir known as IndiraSagar .

 4 ) . Kshipra River

 One of the most important river which is also termed as GANGES OF THE MALWA The  “ Shipra ”, also known as the  “ Kshipra ” rises in the Vindhya Range North of Dhar and flows south across the Malwa Plateau to join the Chambal River. It is one of the sacred rivers in Hinduism. The holy city Ujjain is situated on its right bank. 

Ujjain is an ancient city of Malwa region in central India and famous for one of the twelve celebrated Jyotirlingas in India known as Mahakaleshwar. In every 12 years, the Kumbh Mela festival takes place on the city and millions of people take holy dip and bath in the holy river Shipra.

5 ) . The Godavri

The river Godavari originates near Trimbak in Nashik  and flows towards the   Bengal arena of    “ EASTERN GHAT  " into the Bay of Bengal. This second largest river is considered to be one of the big river basins in India. Kumbh Mela at Nashik is well known as an important center of Pilgrimage in India because the holy river Godavari. 

 In the Soutern part of India and South India this river has a special importance and it is also compared as to be the GANGES by almost all the South Indians Godavari, the largest and the longest river of South India is popularly referred as to as the Dakshina Ganga. Jayakwadi Dam is one of the largest earthen dams in India build across Godavari River in Maharashtra.

 6 ) . River Kaveri

Kaveri or Cauvery River is considered to be a very sacred river of southern India. It originates from the Brahmagiri Hill in the Western Ghats flow towards the Bay of Bengal. This sacred river travels across the heartland of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

It is one of the major rivers of the Peninsular flowing east and running into the Bay of Bengal. The Mettur Dam is a large dam build across the Kaveri River. The beautiful SHIVASAMUDRAM FALLS  a centre piece of beauty of the nature, of Kaveri river is the second biggest water falls in India.

7). The River BRAHMAPUTRA

Brahmaputra River, Bengali Jamuna, Tibetan Tsangpo, Chinese (Pinyin) Yarlung Zangbo Jiang or (Wade-Giles romanization) Ya-lu-tsang-pu Chiang, major river of Central and South Asia. It flows some 1,800 miles (2,900 km) from its source in the Himalayas to its confluence with the Ganges (Ganga) River, after which the mingled waters of the two rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal.

Along its course the Brahmaputra passes through the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, and Bangladesh. For most of its length, the river serves as an important inland waterway. It is not, however, navigable between the mountains of Tibet and the plains of India. In its lower course the river is both a creator and a destroyer—depositing huge quantities of fertile alluvial soil but also causing disastrous and frequent floods.

The Brahmaputra enters the plains of Bangladesh after turning south around the Garo Hills below Dhuburi, India. After flowing past Chilmari, Bangladesh, it is joined on its right bank by the Tista River and then follows a 150-mile (240-km) course due south as the Jamuna River. (South of Gaibanda, the Old Brahmaputra leaves the left bank of the main stream and flowspast Jamalpur and Mymensingh to join the Meghna River at Bhairab Bazar.

 Before its confluence with the Ganges, the Jamuna receives the combined waters of the Baral, Atrai, and Hurasagar rivers on its right bank and becomes the point of departure of the large Dhaleswari River on its left bank. A tributary of the Dhaleswari, the Buriganga (“Old Ganges”), flows past Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and joins the Meghna River above Munshiganj

Climate of Brahmaputra

The climate of the Brahmaputra valley varies from the harsh, cold, and dry conditions found in Tibet to the generally hot and humid conditions prevailing in Assam state and in Bangladesh. Tibetan winters are severely cold, with average temperatures below 32 °F (0 °C), while summers are mild and sunny. The upper river valley lies in the rain shadow of the Himalayas, and precipitation there is relatively light: Lhasa receives about 16 inches (400 mm) annually.

The Indian and Bangladeshi parts of the valley are governed by the monsoon (wet, dry) climate, though it is somewhat modified there compared with other parts of the subcontinent; the hot season is shorter than usual, and the average annual temperature ranges from 79 °F (26 °C) in Dhuburi, Assam, to 85 °F (29 °C) in Dhaka. Precipitation is relatively heavy, and humidity is high throughout the year. The annual rainfall—between 70 and 150 inches (1,780 and 3,810 mm)—falls mostly between June and early October; however, light rains also fall from March to May

8). The River Krishna

The Krishna River is the fourth-biggest river in terms of water inflows and river basin area in India, after the Ganga, Godavari and Brahmaputra. ... The river is also called Krishnaveni. It is one of the major sources of irrigation for Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

The river rises in western Maharashtra state in the Western Ghats range near the town of Mahabaleshwar, not far from the coast of the Arabian Sea. It flows east to Wai and then in a generally southeasterly direction past Sangli to the border of Karnataka state. There the river turns east and flows in an irregular course across north-central Karnataka and then to the southeast and into southwestern Telangana state. It then veers southeast and then northeast, forming a portion of the border with Andhra Pradesh state. Turning east it flows into Andhra Pradesh to its delta head at Vijayawada, and from there flows southeast and then south until it enters the Bay of Bengal.

Importance of these rivers-::

The IMPORTANCE of these rivers lies in the fact that -:

1). These RIVERS are the base and the basics of providing all the necessities for agriculture and the slits at times bring about the natural salt which  acts as an fertilizer and provides all the help for a good harvest when it does so.

2). It provides water for drinking and at places it also provides the necessary water for the generation of the electricity which keeps the industries and industrial production on it’s  feet

3). Most of these  rivers produces the food ie the river food such as FISH, CRABS, and some other kind of RIVER FOOD which constitutes the income for the fisherman and the one’s who are engaged in the business for and of rivers foods and it’s various products.

4).As said earlier it provides a source of living for the floras and the faunas .

It is very important and pertinent to keep these rivers very clean and hence the cleansing of the River Ganges holds IMPORTANCE and very importance. The river Ganges is somehow connected to most of the important river either at the start or at the end and many of the tributaries of the river Ganges goes and makes it's end  at the Oceans and the big seas’  that I have mentioned

A polluted river Ganges will only KILL the floras, the faunas, the live that is in it and that constitutes the income of so many a human being and not only that the STINKS and the smell that emancipates out of it will only KILL the natural human beings spreading many an epidemics and the contamination will also act as a KILLER to the epidemics and the contaminants.

It is very natural that Ganges which flows from ONE end of India ie the START as we call it from the Gangotri and ends up in the Bay Of Bengal  needs to be totally cleansed as the  CONSTITUENT of the RIVER GANGES or the MAA GANGAA as we call it contributes to about 1% of the GDP at the minimum and if it is cleansed and maintained in that manner it can RAISE it’s CONTRIBUTION to TWO PERCENT of the GDP

Though the River Gange and Yamuna are holiest rivers of India but they are also in the list of one of the highly polluted Indian rivers along with small rivers and water stream flows from major Indian cities.

More Dangerous Than The CORONA VIRUS In The Offing :

These pollutions if NOT taken care by keeping the rivers CLEAN can cause epedemics which will be FAR-MORE-DANGEROUS thatn the  “ CORONA VIRUS ” and the present Government for the River Ganges and the various state Governemnt for the other rivers mentioned here have to WAKE-UP-TO-THE-REALITIES before it is too late

Nothing much and nothing more is seen of the cleansing of the River Ganges though millions of money might have been poured for the same to cleanse it. Where is the RESPONSIBILITY and the ACCOUNTABILITY ?

Mr Modi- the   dangerous so called the “ BELLS ” are “ RINGING ” and  “ KINDLY -  BELL -  THE -  CAT ”

That is it

Regards

Shyamal Bhattacharjee