VARANASI, India -- Amit Kumar, a 36-year-old tour guide, has been living in the holy city of Varanasi for over 30 years. For most of his life, the River Ganges reeked and was littered with tons of garbage -- including human waste and corpses, he recalls.
The holy, yet highly polluted Ganges river in Varanasi, India, which Modi has promised to clean up by October next year. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)
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