I think in a deep and fundamental way, the myth of the river captures the fraternity of difference, the memory of difference, the continuity and the unity of difference in different ways. [...] When I went in to find the story of the flood, I came back with the story of the rivers and then I came back with the story of the country and of the civilisation because like both of them said, that’s what it is. [...] So, I went to Dzongu and I got really connected with the place not because of the place, but because of the people and how they were referring to the river Teesta, as the mother and the father. [...] Even if you go by the history or the geography, you will find that the river Teesta has had a lot of stories of havoc that have been created in the 1880s and then the 1950s, stories of how the bridge of the river Teesta was literally swept away with the flood that came by. [...] Whereas here, by moving the centre, the main capital away from the riverbed, and then letting the poorest of the poor live there, and to hide it, therefore, then what in fact has happened is 21 A Dialogue of Rivers that the river has been forgotten, it’s the stinkiest part of the city, the home to the poorest, whereas …..
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