Ganesh Chaturthi

We are at the point now where we can reflect back on the first time we saw something, and put it in a new context a year later. So that you can see an instance of that, here is last year's entry on Ganesh Chaturthi. We will have a new entry on the recent festival tomorrow.

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Liam and I walked down to Madhapur tonight, a section of Hyderabad near us. We visited about three different tents where there were huge Ganesh statues. Incredibly colorful!

One tent had a family watching a movie on the TV in the corner, the other tent was being manned by four kids under the age of twelve, and the last had a man chanting over a microphone. He kept saying "moksha". It means salavation.

Each tent has insence, many flowers, and a variety of small Ganeshas around the base of the big ones. The biggest one we saw was ten feet tall.

On Tuesday night every Ganesh statue will be immersed in in water. The intent is to have them dissolve.

They are all plaster or clay with loads of paint on them. Probably not too good for the water supply.....