The world may know of this as a holy temple town, a hippie abode, the place where the Beatles took to spirituality under Mahesh Yogi or as an international hotspot for Yoga, but more than anything else, it is the Ganga that defines Rishikesh. The river, whose very name is a prayer, makes the town far more tranquil than its loudspeakers, its chaotic lanes, its sadhus, backpackers and spiritual tourists would otherwise have let it be. You are always uplifted by her changing constancy.
