The immersion of Ganesh idol's today culminates a wonderful & grand festival celebrated all over Maharashtra. This year could be said to be the beginning of Political Ganesh Pandals. Almost all big idols had big sponsorships & advertisements from Political parties.I always make it a point to visit 2 specific Ganesh idols in the city of Mumbai. You guessed it right - the Ganesh idols of Ganesh Gulli & the Lalbaugcharaja, both located at nearby places in Lalbaug area, Parel. While Ganesh Gulli's idol is famous for its standing postures & theme based pandals, Lalbaugcharaja is famous for its immense faith among its believers. Its said that Lalbaugcharaja fulfills every visitors' wish.
It was the 75th year of Lalbaugcharaja. By looking onto the enormous crowd on TV, all my hopes of visiting Lalbaugcharaja doomed down. It all happened day before yesterday. when there came in a reference of an ex-employee of my company named Rizwan. Rizwan helped me & few of my friends to join the queue in between at Lalbaugcharaja, through his top class references, to make a successfull darshan of Lalbaugraja & Ganesh Gulli Ganesh idols. I heard that the queues were extending almost 1-2 kms & people waited on an average of 6-9 hrs to have a darshan. Thanks to Rizwan that the entire episode was wrapped up only in a matter of 1-2 hrs. People staying abroad can have a look at the snaps of Ganesh Gulli & Lalbaugcharaja Ganesh idols clicked from my Camera. The snap of the Ganesh idol at Ganesh Gulli is posted on the top. The snap of Lalbaugcharaja was clicked with great difficult & hence appears a bit blurred is posted below.
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