Published by Speaking Tree, India

The Speaking Tree Sunday Newspaper: “A River Cruise on the Brahmaputra is more than just a wet and wild experience”, writes Narayani Ganesh

What was the lady doing? I can see her bending low on the embankment, carefully spooning the rich alluvial sand into a Ziploc bag.The tourist from Canada, here on a river cruise aboard the M V Mahabaahu on the Brahmaputra,had seen me do this the previous evening,spooning sand into a bag,and asked me what I would do with it.I had told her I would place it in the tulsi pot at home, the Holy Basil.And now she is going to carry a part of the Brahmaputra all the way back to Canada, perhaps add it to her garden soil.