The festival of Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated to honor the Hindu god Ganesh. The festival, also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi is observed in the Hindu calendar month of Bhaadrapada, starting on the shukla chaturthi (fourth day of the waxing moon period) and lasts for 10 days, ending on Anant...
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If it doesn't appear within an hour one can do ganesh puja and then make a picture of moon or with the help of rice make moon and give arghya. This is completely shastroka as per sankathara chaturthi vrata katha. Sometimes one can call friends in neighbouring city to check if they ...
Passing the family and staff apartments and getting out of the lift at what seems to be the hospitality suite, I am greeted by the smell of incense, a block of which is sweetly smoking under a statue of Ganesh, the Hindu elephant god. An old family retainer in a sari peers at me ...