Ganges
About Ganges
The Ganges is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The 2,525-kilometre-long (1,569 mi) river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It flows south and east through the Gangetic plain of North India, receiving the right-bank tributary, the Yamuna, which also rises in the western Indian Himalayas, and several left-bank tributaries from Nepal that account for the bulk of its flow. In West Bengal, India, a feeder canal taking off from its right bank diverts 50% of its flow southwards, artificially connecting it to the Hooghly River. The Ganges continues into Bangladesh, its name changing to the Padma. It is then joined by the Jamuna, the lower stream of the Brahmaputra, and eventually the Meghna, forming the major estuary of the Ganges Delta, and emptying into the Bay of Bengal. The Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna system is the second-largest river on earth by discharge.
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Thousands of face masks were issued by the Forestry Reserve in India to people living near the Ganges where tigers kept killing people — the face masks were to wear on the back of their heads.
from No Such Thing As A Sticky Shell Spoon, 2016-07-15 at 00:02:10 · read transcript
Other times Ganges came up
He didn't invent that. We'd still have the pig rink, thank God. That would be probably fine. Can I just, because such a cool thing about Ganges is that his brother, was a guy called Samson Gamji. Sam Gamji? So Samson Ganji was a doctor, and he invented a kind of tissue that was used in surgical instruments, which people called the Gamji tissue. Tolkien wrote a letter saying that he'd got the name Samwise Gamji from that because they used to refer to the Gamji tissue at the end of the 19th century, and it was to go with Rosie Cotton, who's Samwise Gamjee's wife in Lord of the Rings.
No Such Thing As A Love Potion For A Vole, 2017-06-23 · listen
Coordinates: 22.0000, 90.9000