India’s ‘Spiritual Backbone’: Two End-to-End Explorations Down the Ganges River

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  04.02.07 | 7:34 AM ET

imageNational Public Radio’s Morning Edition begins a five-part series about the Ganges River today, following its 1,550-mile length to explore India’s past and future. “The Ganges provides sustenance to more people than the population of the United States,” says Philip Reeves, NPR’s India correspondent. “She passes through India’s most populous state, its most lawless state, its holiest city and Calcutta, the country’s cultural capital and latest aspiring technology hub.”

Reeves’s trip comes on the heels of another full-length examination of the Ganges by Peter Foster and Heathcliff O’Malley, who chronicled their journey multimedia style in The Telegraph.

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Photo by 4ocima, via Flickr (Creative Commons).