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  • Ganesh Chaturthi

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    Today marks the birthday of Lord Ganesh. Witness his creation! Part man, part elephant, Lord Ganesh is made of plaster from the inside out. Finally he’s painted and draped in finery. Behold his glory! For the next ten days, he’ll be paraded through the streets of Mumbai to be immersed into the Arabian Sea. Happy Ganesh…

  • Ganpati Visarjan

    Ganpati Visarjan

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    Toward sunset ahead of a near-full moon, the tide far out on the Arabian Sea, Ganpati marches shoreward. Carried through the streets on trucks surrounded by throbbing drums, hoisted at the beachhead on a multitude of shoulders, carted across the sand to the edge, then towed, bobbing on the waves, by Zodiac. Ganpati topples into…