Victor Mallet is a journalist and author who has reported for three decades from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, first for Reuters and then for the Financial Times. From 2012 to 2016 he was based in New Delhi as the FT's South Asia Bureau Chief, and is currently in Hong Kong as Asia News Editor. His highly praised book on the south-east Asian industrial revolution and the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, The Trouble with Tigers (HarperCollins), was first published in 1999. He twice won the Society of Publishers in Asia award for opinion writing. In India, he was awarded the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism as a foreign correspondent for a 2012 feature about the rise of Narendra Modi.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Killing the mother goddess Chapter 2 Mouth of the Cow: the Himalayan source Chapter 3 Holy waters Chapter 4 How to build a megacity - and save the Ganges Chapter 5 Varanasi: Hinduism's capital city Chapter 6 Varanasi revisited: Two days in the holy city Chapter 7 Toxic river Chapter 8 Superbug river: Not a magic cure - a deadly gene carrier Chapter 9 Of dolphins, crocodiles and tigers Chapter 10 Demography: not a dividend Chapter 11 Water and wells: why the taps run dry Chapter 12 Droughts and dams: engineering the Ganges Chapter 13 A Bollywood star: Ganga on film Chapter 14 Exotic river: the Ganges seen by foreigners Chapter 15 Storms and sandbanks: boat travel on the Ganges Chapter 16 Trade artery no more: Calcutta and Bengal Chapter 17 Mission impossible? How to clean the Ganges Chapter 18 Beautiful forest: Where Ganga meets the ocean Bibliography Notes Index 1. Introduction: Killing the mother goddess 2. Mouth of the Cow: the Himalayan source 3. Holy waters 4. How to build a megacity - and save the Ganges 5. Varanasi: Hinduism's capital city 6. Varanasi revisited: Two days in the holy city 7. Toxic river 8. Superbug river: Not a magic cure - a deadly gene carrier 9. Of dolphins, crocodiles and tigers 10. Demography: not a dividend 11. Water and wells: why the taps run dry 12. Droughts and dams: engineering the Ganges 13. A Bollywood star: Ganga on film 14. Exotic river: the Ganges seen by foreigners 15. Storms and sandbanks: boat travel on the Ganges 16. Trade artery no more: Calcutta and Bengal 17. Mission impossible? How to clean the Ganges 18. Beautiful forest: Where Ganga meets the ocean Bibliography Notes Index
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