New Documentary 'The Spirit of the Ganga' by Youth Highlights Pollution and Dolphin Conservation

The documentary will be screened for a select audience, including former Secretary, Ministry of Jal Shakti, and current Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, U.P. Singh, and Director-General, National Mission for Clean Ganga, Rajiv Mishra.

The crowdfunded film results from the zeal of an 18-year-old and his volunteers who travelled across the Ganga to conduct several programmes involving Gangetic dolphins.

Sumair Handa Bakshi, the young mind behind the 'The Spirit of The Ganga', is the founder of 'Save the Spirit of the Sea Foundation' and is now on a mission to work on rivers, especially Ganga.

Save the Spirit of the Sea works towards conserving aquatic life through awareness, volunteerism and is currently working on a global movement to preserve the river Ganga.

As a part of the project, Handa with his team travelled across the river basin for direct action. They raised Rs 20 lakh through crowdfunding for the documentary and other community-related work along the banks of Ganga.

In January 2020, the team documented cleaning along the Yamuna with school children across Delhi-NCR.

Handa, who is currently pursuing a degree in finance with a minor in marine biology from the University of South Florida in the US, said his earliest protests started when he was in school.

For the cause of the environment, he and his friends raised slogans outside the Japanese Embassy in Delhi against dolphin slaughter and raised the issue on social media.

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