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Why do people love and romanticize rivers. Be it Chenab, Ganga, Sindhu or any river in the world.. There is some story connected with rivers.
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main ne ek movie dekhi thi us mein larka or larki river mein khud kushi kr letay hain shayd isliye 
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main ne ek movie dekhi thi us mein larka or larki river mein khud kushi kr letay hain shayd isliye :D
Khudkushi bhi ik romantic kaam hai
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romantic 
main to smjhi thi fools ka kaam hai 
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**Khudkushi **bhi ik romantic kaam hai
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Its the same waters of Chenab where Sohni **drowned **while swimming to meet her lover Mahiwal.
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toba toba....
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i think river view, we can say that it is romantic 
lovely sunset 
but titanic tu doob gaya tha 
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woh darya main nahi, samandar main doba tha… 
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River bhi tu samander mae girtey hain 
jahan dher sara pani hu wo jaga romantic bus 
chahey road pey barish ka pani hi kyun na khara hu Astagfirullah 
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^ baat to theek hai… swimming pool bhi romantic jagah hia… 
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What do you mean by "people"? Perhaps you meant writers from the subcontinent.
The only general explanation I can give is that it's usual for writers to base their stories around a certain geographical location, often the location is either where the writer is from or the place he's personally fond of.
Why Subcontinent writers extensively talk about rivers, well apart from the obvious fact that Ganga holds a spiritual value for the people belonging to Hinduism and is a very important place. However, it might be interesting to note that most of the subcontinent climate is hot and dry and therefore perhaps amid such unappreciated climate, flowing rivers serves as an interesting, mysterious and cherished location. It's an exciting place to view for the locals or perhaps writers' only claim to something totally raw, natural as well visually beautiful and powerful in his surrounding.
I personally feel water is generally very appreciated and valued in South Asian cultures, rain is seen as a blessing, an absolute joy and a good omen. It creates a perfect setting for romance and creating and remembering good memories. There's often an emotional link between the character and the rain. However, in English literature, rain mostly serves the purpose of creating pathetic fallacy. It's a perfect environmental setting to induce and enhance darkness, gloom and melancholy into the story - pretty much exactly how the rain is generally viewed here in UK.
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What do you mean by "people"? Perhaps you meant writers from the subcontinent.
The only general explanation I can give is that it's usual for writers to base their stories around a certain geographical location, often the location is either where the writer is from or the place he's personally fond of.
Why Subcontinent writers extensively talk about rivers, well apart from the obvious fact that Ganga holds a spiritual value for the people belonging to Hinduism and is a very important place. However, it might be interesting to note that most of the subcontinent climate is hot and dry and therefore perhaps amid such unappreciated climate, flowing rivers serves as an interesting, mysterious and cherished location. It's an exciting place to view for the locals or perhaps writers' only claim to something totally raw, natural as well visually beautiful and powerful in his surrounding.
I personally feel water is generally very appreciated and valued in South Asian cultures, rain is seen as a blessing, an absolute joy and a good omen. It creates a perfect setting for romance and creating and remembering good memories. There's often an emotional link between the character and the rain. However, in English literature, rain mostly serves the purpose of creating pathetic fallacy. It's a perfect environmental setting to induce and enhance darkness, gloom and melancholy into the story - pretty much exactly how the rain is generally viewed here in UK.
Its not limited to sub-continent, neither it is related to writers. Each culture, its folklore romanticise rivers.
Danube, Thames, Nile, Euphrates (Furaat) all attract same kind of attraction.
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Its not limited to sub-continent, neither it is related to writers. Each culture, its folklore romanticise rivers.
Danube, Thames, Nile, Euphrates (Furaat) all attract same kind of attraction.
Thames isn't 'romanticised' the way you are describing, as far as I know. A very talked about location in all London based writings nonetheless.
Nile is historically and spiritually quite a significant place, but also flowing through a very hot and dry place just like Euprates. I still think rivers are really appreciated in hot and dry climate, if water is considered life, then river is the source of that life.
I am still quite unsure what you mean by 'romanticise'. You mean lots of love stories are based around rivers?
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Thames isn't 'romanticised' the way you are describing, as far as I know. A very talked about location in all London based writings nonetheless.
Nile is historically and spiritually quite a significant place, but also flowing through a very hot and dry place just like Euprates. I still think rivers are really appreciated in hot and dry climate, if water is considered life, then river is the source of that life.
I am still quite unsure what you mean by 'romanticise'. You mean lots of love stories are based around rivers?
By romanticisng I mean the level of attachment people show towards these rivers. Sindhu and Ganga have been common names in respective regions.
You are right that hot climate regions appreciate water and water reservoirs more than other regions. This is apparent from myths about HakRa in Cholistan, but Danube (which flow across Europe) is also mentioned extensively in the folklore of the region (especially gypsy folklore). Probably, rivers also denotes journey in gypsy culture.
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All civilization flourished on the banks of river, so it is natural for a river to be romanticized :)
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there are many pot holes in the roads here
her jaga :
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All civilization flourished on the banks of river, so it is natural for a river to be romanticized :)
Pretty much this.
They give life, in a sense.
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From what I gathered from my Punjabi roots is that having a rendezvous by the river was very common because that was one task assigned to the girls' - to bring water home in clay pots. That's one of the the only few places they could go and have a good time. Also, not only girls from your village went there, there was a good chance that girls from neighbouring villages also came (strangeness was akin to mystery/increased attraction, etc).
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From what I gathered from my Punjabi roots is that having a rendezvous by the river was very common because that was one task assigned to the girls' - to bring water home in clay pots. That's one of the the only few places they could go and have a good time. Also, not only girls from your village went there, there was a good chance that girls from neighbouring villages also came (strangeness was akin to mystery/increased attraction, etc).
the concept of Panghat and lines like 'mohay panghat pe nand laal cheR gayo re'