Brahmaputra River

When I saw the Brahmaputra River, which is the Tsang-po slightly civilized, and Darjeeling, and the Mountains of Nepaul, there was no mistaking them and yet they were no more genuine, to my mind, than remembered dreams.

Jimgrim Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1931

Anupam Nath/Associated Press A man holding incense sticks danced before an idol of Hindu goddess Durga before it was immersed in the Brahmaputra River in the eastern Indian city of Gauhati, Assam, Thursday.

Dussehra, Durga Puja Celebrations 2011

It was only after India provided China with satellite photographs that Beijing belatedly acknowledged that it was building a hydroelectric project on the shared Brahmaputra River and agreed to exchange data on water flows.

The Axis of Grudging Cooperation 2010

The teacher lives on the mainland, a three to four-hour boat ride away, and only makes the journey along the Brahmaputra River to Tengatoli village in lower Assam to teach once a month.

Hanna Ingber Win: India: Three Wives, 10 Kids Is Enough 2010

This is to be balanced by the enlargement of the National Park in the north to include part of the Brahmaputra River.

Kaziranga National Park, India 2009

It lies in the flood plain of the Brahmaputra River, sloping very gradually from east to west against a backdrop of the foothills and snow-covered peaks of the eastern Himalayas.

Kaziranga National Park, India 2009

An addition of some 45,450ha is proposed to include the Brahmaputra River to the north and part of the Mikir Hills to the south.

Kaziranga National Park, India 2009

President Hu's predecessor Jiang Zemin (electrical engineering) launched the ambitious, multidecade South-North Water Transfer Project, which involves channeling water from the southern Yangtze River to the north of the country via massive viaducts, incurring huge expense (an estimated $62 billion) and the diversion of water near the origin of India's Brahmaputra River — a special concern of the government in Delhi.

Right Brain 2009

The government has proposed a 45,450ha extension to incorporate a section of the Brahmaputra River within the park which is to be handed over to the park administration when ownership rights have been settled.

Kaziranga National Park, India 2009

Situated on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra River at the foot of the Mikir/Karbi Anglong Hills, about 8 kilometers (km) from Bokakhat and 220 km east of Gauhati, the Assam state capital.

Kaziranga National Park, India 2009