“We are only two hours from Delhi,” says Goswami, “and people are feverishly spending millions to turn Vrindavan into a suburb. Because there is so little appreciation for holy places, developers get away with using the Yamuna as a dump for their construction. Instead of dredging to restore the river’s natural beauty, they have laid a tar road along its banks and in the riverbed to facilitate more traffic. I refuse to walk on it.”

This is scary. I really appreciated Shrivatsa Goswami’s deep reflections on this rather sad predicament.