today is ganesh chaturthi...for all those who are ignorant about it let me tell you something about it..LOKMANYA TILAK organised this festival in order to unite the people....to bring them together irrespective of their caste and from where they belong in order to strengthen the fight against BRITISH RAJ.....this festival is mainly celebrated in maharashtra as it originated here....but these days people in other parts of the country too celebrate it......in maharashtra many people bring ganesh idols in their homes....they make lots of preparations for decorations and prasad etc etc..will put up pics of the decorations....love the typical modaks they make...its like ghugra we gujjus make jus that they are boiled.....the outer covering is of rice flour and inner stuffing is of coconut jaggery and cardomom.......it tastes yummy!!!!!!!!!!
the idols are kept for 1 1/2 , 5, 7 or 11 days.....most people who do it on small scale keep them for 1 and 1/2 day.....and big sarvajanik (community) ganesh are kept for more days......
only bad part abt the whole festival is that the idols r immersed in natural sources of water...and that adds to water pollution as the idols are made of plaster of paris......we have to find some eco friendly material soon....
on the whole this festival like our other festivals adds colour to life....and takes us one step closer to god as at least for those many days and some days prior to it we do constructive things ,planning on what needs to be done and how we are going to do it....so other thoughts automatically stay away from our minds....great stress buster......
putting a song of ganesh visarjan from movie don, i know there is time for visarjan but wanted to put some ganesh related video so here it is...
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