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Sandeepa and Chetan. Married. Indians. Exploring Travel as Lifestyle. Featured by National Geographic, Yahoo. We hope that through our travel stories we inspire others to make their dream into a reality.
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Awesome photos , Thanks for the beautiful post.
Ganpati Bappa Morya
Fantastic pictures, Feeling nostagic about Mumbai’s Ganpati vsarjan sitting in my office cubicle in Pune 🙂
The Ganpati visarjan in Pune is a wonderful different – very different than the Ganpati visarjan in Mumbai. But an event to be experienced for sure.
The Ganesh visarjan in Pune is an event to be experienced as well. Very different than the visarjan chaos of Mumbai, it’s a big cultural extravaganza.
nice and creative photography, and also waiting for coming next month ganpati season photos
Thanks Sachin! Hope to attend the Ganesh festival this year.
Hello Sandeepa and Chetan,
Firstly i appreciate your photography skill.
Very nice information about Ganesh visarjan in Mumbai. Amazing Photography. Loved It. 🙂
The pictures are incredible as usual and I really enjoyed hearing about the history of the festival as well. I admire you for going into those big crowds, and for staying so long. Your night shots are just as beautiful as your day shots.
Hey Tina, living in a city as populous as Mumbai has probably made us immune to the crowds 🙂 For an event like the Ganesh festival, the large crowds just add so much energy, we didn’t realise the time we had spent there! Thank you once again for your comment and appreciation!
Hi Sandeepachetan.
This looks like quite the celebration!!
Just curious…what are the idols made of, and are they sent to drift out to sea? Or, are they recovered and reused?
Have a great day. Thanks for the photos.
Lynn
Hello Lynn, the idols and their immersion in the sea is matter of great concern here. The big idols, like the ones in the photos here are made of plaster of paris. And yes, they are just let to drift off. The smaller ones, the ones that people get in their homes are made of mud. Many environment related organisations are making a 3 pronged effort to reduce the environmental impact of this festival. One, encourage more people to get only the mud idols painted with organic colours. Second is to reduce the height of the Ganesh idols. And thirdly, encourage people to make an artificial lake in their neighbourhoods and use it for immersion. Hopefully the awareness will spread.
Your blog is so interesting! I hope you intend to make it into a book. If you do, don’t forget to tell us where we can purchase it. Keep up the good work!
Thank you,Kim for such a generous and encouraging comment!