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Ganesh Chaturthi is the celebration of the birthday of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh. The festival involves the buying and building of Ganesh statues, decorating and worshiping them at home and then at the end of the festival, immersing them in water. This statue was particularly cool, being made entirely of fruits and vegetables. A wonderful work of art I was glad I managed to stumble upon near my office. Families will buy and display small clay ones and communities will come together to build huge elaborate ones that are then carried down to a lake or ocean (sometimes miles away) for a raucous immersion. The processions are usually very loud, rather slow moving (naturally as you cart giant things around) and more or less block traffic for a couple days. In recent times, local and state governments have enforced special areas allowed for dunking as the annual volume and pollution of thousands of Ganesh statues were creating hazards and filling up water bodies. |
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| Author | McKay Savage from London, UK |
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