27th November, 2008; Agricultural College Grounds, Ganesh Khind Road:
Folk tunes rang out in the background as the buzz that emanates from any large gathering continued to rise and fall. Artistes performed a street play as people stood around and watched. Children tugged at their parents’ clothes, crying to either be taken to the mery-go-round and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Festivals’
30 November, 08
Pune’s Bhimthadi Jatra
1 October, 08
Visarjan Aftermath
On the banks of the Mula-Mutha:
Every year, as a part of the Ganapathi Festival Celebrations thousands of idols of the Elephant-headed Lord are immersed into the waters of the Mula-Mutha River. While this tradition was established in 1894 by Lokmanya Tilak to initiate “the collective communal celebration of the festival of Lord Ganesha”, in the [...]
29 September, 08
Pune’s Annual Extravaganza: Ganapati Visarjan 2008
The Procession on Lakshmi Road
Drummer at the Visrajan procession on Lakshmi Road
The Annual Ganapati Visarjan Procession on the tenth day after Ganpati Chaturti is arguably Pune’s largest, unified exercise in the city in terms of the number of people who are a part of it as well as the city’s most extravagant display of tradition, [...]
