1. Ganga Bai was on duty in the evening.

2. Ganga Bai, does your husband know about your 'friends'?

3. Aakash Ganga, which won the US$200,000 Development Marketplace award in 2006 through project developer Sustainable Innovations, rents village rooftops for a fee.

4. In return, Ganga Bai broke Ratti Bai's mangal sutr—her marriage necklace of black glass beads—an assurance that her husband was still alive.

5. When he founded the Clean Ganga movement, the solution to Varanasi's problems seemed obvious: build more sewage-treatment plants.

6. "Just that Popat Lal beats Ganga Bai black and blue, " I teased her.

7. Marley was a Rastafarian. As such, he was a vegetarian and believed that marijuana (ganga), is a sacred herb. Rastafarians do not cut their hair.

8. Since their relationship had become quite tense lately, Ganga Bai snitched about it to the supervisor.

9. No, Ratti Bai . Ganga Bai was the other one. She died, poor woman.

10. From the Tehri Dam, the Upper Ganga Canal channels clean drinking water 121 miles (194 km) downstream to the nation's capital.

11. The same brother Ganga Bai had said was her lover.

12. Before Ratti Bai came on her rounds, Ganga Bai had used exactly the same words to let me know her opinion of the former: "Ratti Bai's a first-rate tramp."

13. And with it, the story of Ganga will be over.

14. Ganga Bai started pounding slowly on my legs with her fists.

15. Your generation is very selfish. They don’t want India for its Ganga, but for their economic pride and self-respect. I’m hopeful because the chaos and crisis has reached a saturation point. This is our only chance. If it goes down a little bit more, then there is no scope. The youngsters have to realise that things are in their hands now. Gulzar 

16. "If things continue as they are," he says, "in the next five years, there will be no Ganga in Kanpur.

17. Friends and acquaintances visited me for two hours in the evening, the rest of the time I spent chatting and gossiping with Ganga Bai and Ratti Bai.

18. The government of India is now considering scaling up Aakash Ganga to several thousand villages in Rajasthan in public-private-community partnership.

19. As we danced, our breasts became visible, and Satya-tapa cursed us , saying, 'You both go and become fruit trees on the bank of the river Ganga.

20. Completed in 2010, the satellite-based survey took an inventory of the snow cover and glacier extent across glaciated regions of the Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra River basins.

21. As such , he was a vegetarian and believed that marijuana ( ganga ), is a sacred herb.

22. 3India's holiest river, the Ganges, is scribbled with light from floating oil lamps during the Ganga Dussehra festival in Haridwar.