
IT is a bustling industrial centre hardwired for making money. Known for its mills and exporters, it is not uncommon to find a Ferrari or Bentley inching along on its crowded streets. A civic movement is the last thing you would expect in Ludhiana, but in the past couple of years socially conscious citizens have been trying valiantly to be heard amidst the commercial hurly-burly of the city.
Their big concern is the Budda Nala that flows for 14 km through the city and then goes on to join the Sutlej. As it passes through, it becomes the receptacle. . .