The author presents photos of Ganga in spate in 2013, and writes that the river’s unmitigated fury was felt in its fullest as she came crashing downward, at Kedernath.

If even Shiva could not save himself, what was the message? She sets out to show that Ganga is a living being, her waters from the eternal Mount Kailash, are meant for the entire planet.

India has lost her cosmic connection to the great Goddess, Ganga Devi, whose vahana or carrier is Capricorn/Makar.

She has lost her body of higher knowledge and the result is that she celebrates her National Holiday, the Makar Sankranti not on the December Solstice, but 23 days late on 15 January.