Question

What did the ganga mean to jawaharlal nehru?

Answer 1

Jawaharlal Nehru, a religious iconoclast himself, asked for a handfulof his ashes to be thrown into the Ganges. "The Ganga," he wrote in hiswill, "is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her racial memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats.