Ganga – the very name spells holiness to the Indian mind. In a rare, beautiful study of the many moods of the celestial river as captured by artists, sculptors, and poets over the centuries, C. Sivaramamurti writes about this silvery stream,, the daughter of Himalaya, the purifier of the snakes, Rajendra Chola’s ‘liquid pillar of victory’. As recalled in her foreword to this book by his daughter, Jawaharlal Nehru described it as “a symbol of India’s age-long culture and civilization, ever-changing, ever-flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga”.