India is a country of extreme religion and spiritualism. A country which has many rituals and things related to water, something that most of the Indians consider sacred, yet do not think twice about polluting it in many ways. Most common ways of polluting rivers in India is dumping waste and plastic in them. You can see a boy swimming in a river filled with garlands and plastic bags, surely a river flowing through a religious place in India.
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The image is from the Indian city of Mumbai, which is known as the city of dreams. Thousands of people from all over the country come to Mumbai everyday looking to accomplish their ‘Indian dream’ of making lots of money or making it big in the Bollywood film industry. This has led to over population in the city, turning every available land into a livable place and every stream or river into a drainage system.
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