Murder most foul: polluted Indian river given 'living entity' status but reported dead

After the Yamuna river, a tributary to the Ganges, was granted the accolade, it made sense for activists to tell police that somebody had killed itOne morning in late March, Brij Khandelwal called the Agra police to report an attempted murder.Days before, the high court in India’s Uttarakhand state had issued a landmark judgment declaring the Yamuna river – and another of India’s holiest waterways, the Ganges – “living entities”. Continue reading...