Rajeev Kejriwal

Nations are often judged by the monuments they build, the highways they inaugurate or the skylines they proudly showcase. Yet history has a quieter benchmark. It asks a far simpler question: Could every citizen drink clean water without anxiety? Everything else is secondary. Civilizations have risen beside rivers and disappeared because they failed to manage them. Water has never been merely a resource. It is the first condition of life, health, productivity and dignity. A nation may postpone...

Every civilization has a sound. We hear it every day. Perhaps that is why we have forgotten to listen. Some announce themselves with the clang of industry, the whistle of trains, the restless murmur of cities that never seem to sleep. Some are remembered through the songs they sang or the monuments they left behind. Yet beneath every anthem composed by human hands flows an older music that is quieter, gentler, eternal. It is the music of water. It begins as rain, knocking softly upon...

India has revered rivers long before it learnt to dam them. They remember mountains that no longer exist, civilisations that have vanished and journeys that continue to shape the nation. The Rig Veda invokes flowing waters not merely as sources of life but as living mothers. The Mahabharata speaks of rivers carrying both memory and destiny. Perhaps that is why the idea of linking rivers stirs something deeper than engineering drawings and budget estimates. It promises to carry abundance from...