Ganga

This book presents an overview of the hydrometeorological and hydrological studies and assists in tackling challenges posed by climate and land use land cover changes. The Ganga River is one of the major living streams on the planet earth and very important river system in India. This holy river is a lifeline for approximately five hundred million people. In the last few decades, River Ganges has been subjected to tremendous pressures with respect to both water quantity and water quality.

It is the meeting of three musicians of the Armorican tip sharing their compositions and their ways of apprehending the sound, with those of three musicians coming from the classical Indian tradition. The ties naturally weave between our modal musics, and thus springs a common language, which mocks well the clichés and slogans of the time, whether they are identity or universalist. Initiated by Ronan Pellen, this encounter reflects his trajectory as a traveling musician, from the Celtic Procession of Jacques Pellen to the Indian Raga tradition transmitted by his sarangi master Pandit Santosh Mishra. The pieces gathered here are mainly from the repertoire of Sukhdev, Jacques and Ronan, with a loan from Joni Mitchell. Ganga is the Ganges which borders the city of Varanasi, the sacred Indian city from which this music is inspired, the city where Sukhdev Mishra lives and to which he dedicates the title Homage to Kashi.

Sofia ha cinquant'anni quando decide di lasciare Londra, la città che per sette anni è stata la sua casa, per raggiungere prima l'Africa e poi l'India e scappare così dalla prigione dorata fatta di comodità e certezze nella quale si era rinchiusa. Un viaggio che sarà soprattutto "scoperta": di luoghi, di civiltà, di riti, del proprio essere. Con "Il corvo e il mare" Ganga Dasi risponde alla domanda fondamentale che accompagna ogni nostra partenza: cosa significa viaggiare? Attraverso aneddoti, racconti e suggerimenti, l'autrice ci conduce verso i luoghi esotici che hanno segnato il suo viaggio tanto esteriore quanto interiore, paesi lontani in cui l'incontro con l'altro è stato, soprattutto, incontro con sé stessa.

This edited book presents a novel collection of field-based empirical studies on the Quaternary geomorphology of the Lower Ganga Basin.