Composed as I stared over one of the world’s longest rivers. It starts in Tibet, travels through India, and ends in Pakistan and has supplied water to the Indus Valley since early times. I feasted on its magnificence — a vital and timeless picture where people would gather to wash their clothes and share lively social and ritualistic moments.
It was also at the river where I witnessed starvation and death. This duality is not lost on me when one sees the endangered Indus river dolphin, one of the world’s rarest animals found in the central Sindh province of Pakistan. The river Indus is getting dirtier and gives this dolphin a hard time for survival. The river personifies the partition of a people still trying to heal the wounds and chasm between two otherwise incredibly rich nations.
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