The river Ganges, flowing through Hrishikesh, India.

This is a million people gathering on the banks of the Ganges in 2001, perhaps the largest single gathering of human beings ever, as seen from satellite photograph.

The Ganges river dolphin is primarily found in the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers and their tributaries in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, while the Indus river dolphin is found in the Indus River in Pakistan and its Beas and Sutlej tributaries.

The Bengal famine of 1770 (Bengali ৭৬ এর মন বন তর, Chhiattōrer monnōntór lit The Famine of '76 ) was a catastrophic famine between 1769 and 1773 (1176 to 1180 in the Bengali calendar) that affected the lower Gangetic plain of India.

The thinking, mostly implicit, is that maximizing TSR by polluting the environment is acceptable as long as some compensating contributions are made to CSR initiatives the corporate equivalent of bathing in the Ganges to wash away one s sins.

Commenting on the moment when Asiatic cholera kills the great and troubled writer Gustav von Aschenbach, a brilliant Asian student pointed out that Mann related the disease to the pestilence of the Ganges delta, which traversed China and Afghanistan, Persia and Astrakhan, and even Moscow, before reaching Europe through the city of the lagoon.