BOOK REVIEW: The river runs high, runs deep, runs wild - Meghalaya Monitor

BOOK REVIEW: The river runs high, runs deep, runs wild - Meghalaya Monitor

The Brahmaputra evokes a certain solemnness that no other river does. Probably, it is in the name or its sheer mightiness that gives the river a personality that weighs down on mortal existence. And yet, for centuries, the Brahmaputra has nurtured life and civilisation through its course and along its banks. If it had to be personified, then ‘he’ (the Brahmaputra is considered a male river, or nod) would be a mysterious traveller, silent but unp…