Meet Siddharth Agarwal, who has walked along the Ganga, Ken and Betwa rivers over the years. Now, his observations have made their way into a documentary titled Moving Upstream
Siddharth Agarwal has been following India’s rivers on foot for four years. Ask him, and he has many stories to share — about apple trees that are believed to go into slumber when it snows; about fishermen who have to be content with working behind dams instead of across entire rivers; about waters that are flowing less and dwindling more, over the years. These stories have made their way into photo stories, educational events, news reports, articles and even a film.
Says Siddharth over the phone from Kolkata, “My first walk was along the Ganga; I started from Ganga Sagar in West Bengal and went all the way till Gangotri in Uttarakhand. This was in 2016-17; when the river banks were not conducive for walking right alongside, I would walk a little distance away, on a parallel route. But for the most…
