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Ganpati 2018 @ Girgaum Chowpatty @ Mumbai
Images from Ganpati Visarjan on Sunday 23rd September 2018, and Monday 24th September morning at Girgaum chowpatty beach, Mumbai.
A big THANK YOU to the MUMBAI POLICE and the Volunteers for exemplary crowd management ... and believe me it was crowded on Sunday. A big THANK YOU as well to the BMC CLEANERS and Volunteer Clean Up gangs (mostly students) who tidied the beach the next morning even as the last few big Ganapatis were being pushed out to sea.
Thanks also to the people of Mumbai who enjoyed the festival in a peaceful manner. No instances of misbehaviour were reported in such huge crowds which in itself is commendable.
While we all enjoyed the spectacle of the huge Ganpati floats and the carnival atmosphere, let us not forget that IMMERSION is highly polluting and we are destroying our seas and water bodies with this practice, which dear Ganesha would most certainly not want.
The Ganesh festival should move to the practice of symbolic immersion of small permanent idols.
Ganpati 2018 @ Girgaum Chowpatty @ Mumbai
Images from Ganpati Visarjan on Sunday 23rd September 2018, and Monday 24th September morning at Girgaum chowpatty beach, Mumbai.
A big THANK YOU to the MUMBAI POLICE and the Volunteers for exemplary crowd management ... and believe me it was crowded on Sunday. A big THANK YOU as well to the BMC CLEANERS and Volunteer Clean Up gangs (mostly students) who tidied the beach the next morning even as the last few big Ganapatis were being pushed out to sea.
Thanks also to the people of Mumbai who enjoyed the festival in a peaceful manner. No instances of misbehaviour were reported in such huge crowds which in itself is commendable.
While we all enjoyed the spectacle of the huge Ganpati floats and the carnival atmosphere, let us not forget that IMMERSION is highly polluting and we are destroying our seas and water bodies with this practice, which dear Ganesha would most certainly not want.
The Ganesh festival should move to the practice of symbolic immersion of small permanent idols.