SATYANESWAN

At last, I could meet my river. How can someone meet a river? You perhaps doubt my sanity. Have I gone out of my mind? I accept that the statement made is grammatically wrong but still,grammar has its limitations. You would claim one can see, find or at the most locate a river. Some illustrious persons used to discover rivers too but they did not leave one for me to discover. You can only meet people. How on earth can you meet a river? The fact is, we, at this remote part of the Universe never took rivers as non-living, non-animated natural phenomena. Our poets,lyricist amd commoners,be they rich or poor ,over the years, engaged them into conversations, listened to their rumblings and asked them to take good care of us. Our oarsmen devised a mode of singing to the tune of river’s low tides and those folk songs came to be famous as Bhatiali throughout the world. The rivers remained, in our lives, as living as we all are. Some of them are mothers to us and some others, daughters.