Spring 2012, The Hague (NL)

Summer 2015, The Hague (NL)

Images from Ganpati Visarjan and the morning after : 23rd and 24th September 2018 at Mumbai's Girgaum Chowpatty

A big THANK YOU to the Mumbai Police, the huge army of volunteers, the BMC cleaners, student clean up gangs and the people of Mumbai for ensuring a safe and peaceful Ganesh festival.

While we all enjoyed the carnival atmosphere and the sight of the huge Ganesh idols proceeding for immersion, let us remember that immersion is environmentally unfriendly, indeed highly polluting our seas and water bodies. Let us move to symbolic immersion before it is too late and we destroy our seas forever.

Images from Ganpati Visarjan and the morning after : 23rd and 24th September 2018 at Mumbai's Girgaum Chowpatty

A big THANK YOU to the Mumbai Police, the huge army of volunteers, the BMC cleaners, student clean up gangs and the people of Mumbai for ensuring a safe and peaceful Ganesh festival.

While we all enjoyed the carnival atmosphere and the sight of the huge Ganesh idols proceeding for immersion, let us remember that immersion is environmentally unfriendly, indeed highly polluting our seas and water bodies. Let us move to symbolic immersion before it is too late and we destroy our seas forever.

Images from Ganpati Visarjan and the morning after : 23rd and 24th September 2018 at Mumbai's Girgaum Chowpatty

A big THANK YOU to the Mumbai Police, the huge army of volunteers, the BMC cleaners, student clean up gangs and the people of Mumbai for ensuring a safe and peaceful Ganesh festival.

While we all enjoyed the carnival atmosphere and the sight of the huge Ganesh idols proceeding for immersion, let us remember that immersion is environmentally unfriendly, indeed highly polluting our seas and water bodies. Let us move to symbolic immersion before it is too late and we destroy our seas forever.

Summer 2010, The Hague (NL)

Summer 2015, The Hague (NL)

Spring 2012, The Hague (NL)

The queue of people waiting to get on tubes at Mile End Tube Station extended from the station all the way back to Southern Grove. A queue several people deep was lined up outside the flats - and people trying to sleep - in Butternere House

Summer 2018, Düsseldorf (DE)

Spring 2012, The Hague (NL)

Summer 2001, The Hague (NL)

Summer 2014, The Hague (NL)

Images from Ganpati Visarjan and the morning after : 23rd and 24th September 2018 at Mumbai's Girgaum Chowpatty

A big THANK YOU to the Mumbai Police, the huge army of volunteers, the BMC cleaners, student clean up gangs and the people of Mumbai for ensuring a safe and peaceful Ganesh festival.

While we all enjoyed the carnival atmosphere and the sight of the huge Ganesh idols proceeding for immersion, let us remember that immersion is environmentally unfriendly, indeed highly polluting our seas and water bodies. Let us move to symbolic immersion before it is too late and we destroy our seas forever.

Ananta Chaturdashi - Final Immersion Day @ Girgaum Chowpatty

Open mouthed, wide eyed ... and just plain having fun !!!

Spring 2012, Dortmund (DE)

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.

Spring 2012, The Hague (NL)

the sails are gone

Summer 2010, The Hague (NL)

Spring 2012, The Hague (NL)

Spring 2012, The Hague (NL)

Spring 2012, The Hague (NL)

Spring 2012, Dortmund (DE)

Spring 2012, Dortmund (DE)

Walking around there was a feeling of extreme crowd control and social engineering. I think I'll stay home with my Fear and Sanity

Spring 2012, The Hague (NL)

Images from Ganpati Visarjan and the morning after : 23rd and 24th September 2018 at Mumbai's Girgaum Chowpatty

A big THANK YOU to the Mumbai Police, the huge army of volunteers, the BMC cleaners, student clean up gangs and the people of Mumbai for ensuring a safe and peaceful Ganesh festival.

While we all enjoyed the carnival atmosphere and the sight of the huge Ganesh idols proceeding for immersion, let us remember that immersion is environmentally unfriendly, indeed highly polluting our seas and water bodies. Let us move to symbolic immersion before it is too late and we destroy our seas forever.

Walking around there was a feeling of extreme crowd control and social engineering. I think I'll stay home with my Fear and Sanity

i have never seen a falling star .. i think this makes up

Images from Ganpati Visarjan and the morning after : 23rd and 24th September 2018 at Mumbai's Girgaum Chowpatty

A big THANK YOU to the Mumbai Police, the huge army of volunteers, the BMC cleaners, student clean up gangs and the people of Mumbai for ensuring a safe and peaceful Ganesh festival.

While we all enjoyed the carnival atmosphere and the sight of the huge Ganesh idols proceeding for immersion, let us remember that immersion is environmentally unfriendly, indeed highly polluting our seas and water bodies. Let us move to symbolic immersion before it is too late and we destroy our seas forever.

Images from Ganpati Visarjan and the morning after : 23rd and 24th September 2018 at Mumbai's Girgaum Chowpatty

A big THANK YOU to the Mumbai Police, the huge army of volunteers, the BMC cleaners, student clean up gangs and the people of Mumbai for ensuring a safe and peaceful Ganesh festival.

While we all enjoyed the carnival atmosphere and the sight of the huge Ganesh idols proceeding for immersion, let us remember that immersion is environmentally unfriendly, indeed highly polluting our seas and water bodies. Let us move to symbolic immersion before it is too late and we destroy our seas forever.

Walking around there was a feeling of extreme crowd control and social engineering. I think I'll stay home with my Fear and Sanity

Images from Ganpati Visarjan and the morning after : 23rd and 24th September 2018 at Mumbai's Girgaum Chowpatty

A big THANK YOU to the Mumbai Police, the huge army of volunteers, the BMC cleaners, student clean up gangs and the people of Mumbai for ensuring a safe and peaceful Ganesh festival.

While we all enjoyed the carnival atmosphere and the sight of the huge Ganesh idols proceeding for immersion, let us remember that immersion is environmentally unfriendly, indeed highly polluting our seas and water bodies. Let us move to symbolic immersion before it is too late and we destroy our seas forever.

Summer 2010, The Hague (NL)

Spring 2012, Dortmund (DE)

Walking around there was a feeling of extreme crowd control and social engineering. I think I'll stay home with my Fear and Sanity

Spring 2012, Dortmund (DE)

Spring 2012, The Hague (NL)

Images from Ganpati Visarjan and the morning after : 23rd and 24th September 2018 at Mumbai's Girgaum Chowpatty

A big THANK YOU to the Mumbai Police, the huge army of volunteers, the BMC cleaners, student clean up gangs and the people of Mumbai for ensuring a safe and peaceful Ganesh festival.

While we all enjoyed the carnival atmosphere and the sight of the huge Ganesh idols proceeding for immersion, let us remember that immersion is environmentally unfriendly, indeed highly polluting our seas and water bodies. Let us move to symbolic immersion before it is too late and we destroy our seas forever.

Spring 2012, Dortmund (DE)

Summer 2014, The Hague (NL)

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.

Walking around there was a feeling of extreme crowd control and social engineering. I think I'll stay home with my Fear and Sanity

Walking around there was a feeling of extreme crowd control and social engineering. I think I'll stay home with my Fear and Sanity

Spring 2012, Dortmund (DE)

Winter 2017, Köln (DE)

Spring 2012, The Hague (NL)

Spring 2012, The Hague (NL)