https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foa2jv0sIcw This song and voice of @[108100829212305:274:Bhupen Hazarika] is just mesmerising. And it also raises some big questions and a time to introspect where we are heading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foa2jv0sIcw
For those folks who need english version of the song, here is a rough english translation for you. taken from : https://ghazala.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/ganga-why-do-you-flow/
Ganga why do you flow?
the spread is immense and
subjects on both banks are in turmoil
always quietly O Ganga, Ganga why do you flow?
morality stands destroyed, humanity stands corrupted
Why do you flow shamelessly?
Chorus: The call of history, roars
O stream of Ganga
turn powerless people into forceful strugglers
marching forward
Why don’t you?
illiterate people, unlettered
innumerable people, without food
sightless, why are you silent seeing this?
individual stays self-centered
entire society characterless
lifeless society why don’t you abandon?
Why aren’t you the listener anymore?
you are definitely not animate
why don’t you fill inspiration in life
exhilarated earth has become Kurukshetra (a battle ground)
Ganga, O mother, in modern India
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