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River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India Future is a work of narrative nonfiction and environmental reportage by Victor Mallet, a longtime Financial Times journalist and former South Asia bureau chief. The book examines the Ganges as a physical river, a sacred presence in Hindu life, and a test case for modern India capacity to manage public health, urban growth, industrial development, and ecological decline. Mallet follows the river from its Himalayan source near Gaumukh to the delta and the Bay of Bengal, combining travel writing, interviews, history, religion, science, and policy analysis. His central concern is the contradiction between reverence and neglect: a river worshipped as a goddess is also burdened with sewage, industrial effluent, reduced flow, and institutional failure. The book is not only about water pollution. It uses the condition of the Ganges to ask whether India can reconcile economic ambition, democratic politics, religious culture, and environmental survival.