On the mobile phone screen, two hosts, a man and a woman, sit in front of the blue earth background board, reading the manuscript seriously:

Today is Wednesday, November 9, 2016, the 10th day of the 10th lunar month. The main contents of today's bee news program are: the chairman of the board of directors in-depth research on mobile phone production, the research institute released the industrial control system ant 3.0, employees from all over the country actively participated in the design of the annual meeting, the supply of frozen dumplings in the headquarters supermarket returned to normal, India's demonetization spawned a rush to buy, and the results of the U.S. election were released. ”

"Recently, Mr. Ma Jing, chairman and CEO of the group, worked tirelessly to go deep into the front-line factories to carefully investigate product production, logistics support, employee training and other work, and made important instructions respectively......

A finger appears at the top of the screen, double-tap in the top left corner, and the video stops abruptly.

"Why don't you watch it?" Tang Jiayi's inquiry came from not far away, this video was discovered by her first, and then showed it to Atletico Madrid.

"I know what I'm going to say later, what else to waste time for?" Atletico smiled and shook his head. It can be seen from the opening synopsis that this video is carefully made in strict accordance with the routine of "the boss in front is busy, the middle employees are happy, and the foreign country is really messy in the end", and it is completely possible to imagine the content of the feature film.

"The news is real, the video is fake. Some people may think that today's bee Taicun is too unstylish, so they cut a new version. ”

Similar to other large corporations, Bee has also been approved to set up a corporate television station to promote the company's dynamics internally, and these news images are produced by the latter's "Bee Today". Limited to the lack of talents, Bee TV has the industry's top production and broadcasting equipment, but the programs made are full of the old-fashioned atmosphere of the county TV station, and the only highlight is that the advertisements are more exciting. These advertisements are handled by top teams at home and abroad, and the investment scene is gorgeous, and the handsome guys and beauties are full of grasp, which is well received by the majority of employees.

"You can see it," Tang Jiayi asked casually, "What are the new instructions for this matter?

"There is nothing to instruct, the broken temple can't accommodate the Buddha, this kind of talent should go to the provincial and municipal TV stations, and it is really condescending to come to the enterprise station. ”

"That's good!" Taking a step back to examine his work, carefully adjusting the angle of the flower branch, Tang Jiayi breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good that you didn't agree, otherwise I would have a headache How to persuade you." ”

"What do you persuade me?"

"I advise you not to be self-aggrandized, don't have nothing to do, learn to engage in copycat hookups. ”

Hearing this, Atletico Madrid smiled and patted his belly without fat, "I'm afraid I don't have this opportunity in this life, I kick my legs on my front foot, and send my back foot into the incinerator, how can I have time to ferment and expand?"

Although Tang Jiayi didn't have much research on forensic science, she still understood this tasteful and spicy joke in seconds, which was all due to the Internet. At that moment, his apricot eyes widened, and he glanced at him fiercely: "Ma is cheap, please shut up if you have nothing to say, I will ruin this vase of flowers!"

"You——," Atletico said in a long voice, "It's really rare and weird, look at the Indians, bathing on the side of the floating corpses, and drinking industrial wastewater with confidence, isn't it good? ”

Throwing over a cut flower casually, Tang Jiayi raised her eyebrows and said: "Okay, okay, this is also at home, if it is heard by the Indians, God knows what kind of turmoil will be made." Besides, this is people's religious customs, and it is people's freedom, so it's better for us outsiders to stay away. ”

Catching the lily that suddenly flew in, he lowered his head and sniffed it in his hand and shook it casually, "The fragrance is so faint! I just briefly stated the facts, in fact, the Hindus are the same thing as us flying face believers, their gods are actually the incarnation of my cooking, those extra arms are proof, RAmen!"

The gods of the Flying Ramen Cult are flying spaghetti monsters with juice and tentacles.

Hearing this, Tang Jiayi threw away the white towel she was holding in her hand, "Look at this towel, the cotton thread on it is twisted and twisted, isn't it very similar to the tentacles of your flying god?

Catching the towel and throwing it on the coffee table, Atletico said calmly: "The doctrine tells us that holy relics, idols, shrines, churches, and parishes are not necessary, because they are not boiled. ”

"Why don't you shout 'RAmen'?"

"I forgot, but it's good that I don't care about this. ”

"Forget it," Tang Jiayi waved her hand to show her surrender, "Actually, the Ganges River is not all dirty, at least the section that just flowed out of the Himalayas must be clean, don't they all say that they will build a factory to sell bottled Ganges water?"

"Yes," Atletico grinned, "the water upstream is still clean, and the water quality will decline rapidly only when it passes through densely populated areas rich in industry and mining." Even if I am not the same as those green terrorists, I have to admit that humans are the biggest source of pollution, and the more people there are, the more polluted. ”

"Wow!" Tang Jiayi clasped her arms and trembled, "Why does this sound weird?"

"That's thinking too much. ”

The Ganges River originates in the southern foothills of the Himalayas and flows from west to east through northern India before empiring into the Bay of Bengal. This great river has nourished past and present civilizations and is considered a "holy river" by Hinduism. Hindus believe that it is a clean river, that bathing in the Ganges River during life can wash away all sinful karma, and that after death, the ashes are sprinkled into the river water, and that you can go straight to heaven without the suffering of reincarnation.

To be precise, the "Ganges" refers specifically to the section of the Vlennasi River in the middle reaches, where most of the photos of bathing in sewage and queuing up dead bodies come from.

THE RIVER GANGES, WHICH FLOWS FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST, BRIEFLY FLOWS NORTH IN A CRESCENT-LIKE C-BEND IN FRONT OF THE ANCIENT CITY OF VARANASI, GIVING A LAYER OF MYSTERY TO THIS THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD CITY. GAUTAMA NI MADE HIS FIRST SERMON AND FOUNDED BUDDHISM AT SANATH, A WILDERNESS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF VALENNASI, WHICH IS ALSO CONSIDERED BY HINDUS TO BE "THE CLOSEST CITY TO HEAVEN."

Hinduism believes that people are born with karma, and that there is less karma for planting good skin (the descendants of the white colonizers who entered here in history) and more karma for poor skin. It takes a lot of good deeds to gradually wash away karma, and only after death can you be reincarnated in a good birth (a higher caste), and after many reincarnations, you will finally ascend to heaven and enjoy eternal peace.

Compared with Buddhism, which became a Buddha, and Catholicism, which bought coupons to atone for sins, such a paradise is undoubtedly a little far away. In this case, the western section of the Ganges River, which has the "holy power" to cleanse the karma of sin, has a special significance. Countless believers have been instilled with the concept of going to Valennasi for at least one lifetime to bathe and eliminate karma since childhood, and then there is the world-famous "Ganges morning bath".

In the morning light, countless men and women come out of their dwellings, calling friends and companions, and walking down the steps of the river called Ghat on the west bank of the river with their sacred cows, the men take off only their shorts, and the women wrap themselves in sari, soak their bodies in waist-deep water, first bury their heads in the water three times, and then pray sincerely to the rising sun.

When the sun rises and the prayers are over, some people begin to take a bath, brush their teeth, wash their hair and wash their clothes, and their faith and life are seamlessly integrated without any sense of disobedience.

Even more disobedient is the crematorium by the river. Countless elderly people have traveled thousands of miles to be able to die in the holy city to be burned in the crematorium (in fact, the steps dedicated to the disposal of corpses) here, and finally to scatter their ashes into the Ganges.

The black smoke curling on the banks of the river, the dense cramps of humble rented houses, the atmosphere of devout faith, and the abundant water of the Ganges River are the most vivid impressions of the city, which is known as "the city of half heaven and half hell".

According to religious tradition, cremating the corpses of believers requires a lot of wood, and India, an ancient civilization with a rich population, is clearly not a country rich in forestry resources. The poor, who could not afford to buy wood, threw themselves into the Ganges without cremation, hoping that the water would take away the bodies.

The Ganges water burial has lasted for thousands of years, and people and the environment have formed a certain "harmony", people who are not adapted to the river water die of disease and corpses return to the river water, people who adapt to the bacterial pollutants in the river water survive, and at the same time, the animal and plant microorganisms in the Ganges River have also adapted to the river water rich in organic pollutants and developed a strong self-purification ability. However, there is no doubt that there is a limit to this self-purification ability, and the pollution of modern industrial and mining enterprises is obviously not something that can be easily absorbed by the "holy river", but the religious packaging that has lasted for thousands of years has long formed a stubborn inertia that is deeply convinced.

While calmly discharging sewage from tanneries and paper mills into the Ganges, Indians are convinced that the sacred and clean water of the Ganges River is pumped into the tap water of the boiling dishes, where it is used for bathing, laundry, and boiling.

India's government has also tried to tackle pollution, but has been unable to do so because of too much investment, religious opposition, and official problems, so it has to sit idly by. It's like they're sitting back and watching the slums of Mumbai and the train tickets.

Because of thousands of years of colonial tradition, India has developed a deep-rooted caste system that binds skin color, birth and social status to occupation.

In modern times, the low-caste rich can change their social status, but if they can't, they can emigrate abroad, and those who have no money and are numerous, "untouchables", can only hang outside the train and live in slums.

If we look at the statistics of the upper castes, it is natural to see all kinds of prosperity and civilization progress, but if we look at the lower castes, which make up the majority of the population, it is a different kind of recent situation, and the Indians have lived together for thousands of years.

This bizarre scene made the crooked nuts puzzled, and they could only sigh "IncredibleIndia" and leave a note in the travel brochure that "the tap water in the hotels along the Ganges River is only for bathing and laundry, and you should drink bottled water for daily drinking", after all, they do not have "Delhi stomach" and "Delhi lungs".

With a population of more than 20 million, Delhi is the second largest metropolitan area in the world after Tokyo, but the quality of the environment is at the other extreme. Delhi and Mumbai, another megacity with a large population, have long competed for the dirtiest cities in the world, and air quality can only be described as frequent and occasionally normal.

Every year in October and November, when the old calendar Diwali is held, the air quality will break through the sky, which is similar to the pollution of the Spring Festival in China.

Compared to air pollution, Delhi, located in the upper reaches of the Yamula River, a tributary of the right bank of the Ganges, has better water security. Those crooked nuts that love "Delhi gastroenteritis", if they go downstream to the more polluted downstream, they must be lying down in the rhythm of going to the hospital.

Amazingly, tens of millions of people live in the lower reaches of such a polluted river, which shows the resilience of human beings.

The People's Republic of Bangladesh, a populous country of more than 100 million and nearly 200 million people, has one-third of its population living in the Ganges River basin. In order to keep this dirty water, they waged an unrelenting struggle with India.

Bengal was originally part of the Indian Empire, but after World War II, the British Empire withdrew from India and divided the Indian colony into two countries, "India for Indians" and "Pakistan for MSL", which became East Pakistan.

Sectarian and religious conflicts and entanglements of interests have sown the seeds of "brotherly" discord. In August 1947, India and Pakistan fought over the ownership of Kashmir, and in 65 they fought over the Indian occupation of Kuchrann, a saline land near the mouth of the Indus River.

At the end of 1970, elections were held in Pakistan, and the "People's League" of East Pakistan, which had more people and less land, won, and the relatively wealthy West Pakistanis repented of their work.

Faced with tens of millions of impoverished MSLs, the Indians did not annex them in one fell swoop, but instead propped up the Republic of Bangladesh and left it to its own devices. In this way, there is no need to worry about their livelihoods, and the construction of the Farakqa dam can continue for 10 years. The dam was built in 71 years and put into trial operation in 75 years to intercept water, blocking most of the Ganges water during the dry season to irrigate India's farmland, with serious consequences for Bangladesh further downstream.

The impoverished Bengalis were also helpless, first holding a border demonstration of 500,000 people to "march to Falaka", and then to the YSL Foreign Ministers' Meeting, the Non-Aligned Movement, and the United Nations General Assembly. Later, although the agreement on dividing the water in half in the dry season was reluctantly reached, how to implement it also depends on the mood of the Indian grandfather.

As a green agricultural country, Bangladesh can only resort to the big trick of "opening the door to release refugees" in the face of the hegemonic behavior of India's neighbors, conniving at the smuggling of people to India, the number of which has reached tens of millions, and constantly staining India's states of Assam and West Bengal.

It is worth mentioning that with the loss of rabbit dividends, European and American garment companies have gradually shifted their production operations to Bangladesh, making MadeinBangladesh more and more clothes, which has the meaning of catching up with MadeinChina.

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