Speaking for the river

In myth, Ganga cleansed and purified human souls, while Yamuna is sister of the god of death

When the Uttarakhand High Court accorded the status of personhood to the Ganga and the Yamuna and appointed a spokesperson on their behalf, it bracketed India with countries such as Ecuador and New Zealand — both nations have given citizenship rights to not just their rivers but also forests and parks. This is probably the best way to ensure the protection of natural resources in the times in which we live, it marks a new relationship between nature and man where the protector-destroyer is now the protected.
 
In myth and legend, Ganga is the river that cleansed, purified and