Gallery: Ganesh Festival

Hindu Voice UK, September 2006

The Ganesh Festival is a yearly event, celebrated with great devotion and fervour in many parts of India, especially Mumbai and Pune. It coincides with 'Ganesh Chaturthi', but is celebrated over a longer period. Artists and sculptors create murtis of Lord Ganesh, which are worshipped for several days, before eventually being taken on a street procession and submerged in water. The festival usually falls in late August or early September.

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