Sunday, August 27, 2006

Missing Ganesh Festival



Boyy...all of Maharashtrians back home were busy welcoming lord Ganesha in their homes yesterday while I was sleeping tight. This is photo in Times of India is enough to take me back to the childhood memories when I used to bring home the Ganesh idol on chaturthi. This is one festival to whihc I've been closely attached throuhout my life. Be it as a child excited with all the laddus being prepared (Oh, my inclination towards food is right from childhood...it's now that it is resulting in so-uncool tummy :( ) or as a young boy busy with lotsa cultural activities to be carried out at the genesh mandal in the galli. Then in college, we used have full fun in 10 days of ganesh festival, it being celebrated together by both the hostels (Girls & Boys). How can I not mention the ganesh festivals I witnessed while staying at the heart of Pune.

Lakshmi Road in Pune...Ganesh festival... huge ( I mean Huge ;) ) crowd ... beautiful pandals, gulal, reverberating sound of dhols and great enthu all in the air. And we college friends at centre of all this action! Nothing can get better than this :) Can it?