Category: Festival

This year, the Volunteers of Ganeshotsav Mandal has made its debut year in the southern
part of the Nagpur supporting the public Ganesh Festival celebrated by Lokmanya Tilak. The Padmanabh temple at Thiruvananthapuram will be replicated and various cultural and social activities have been organized on the occasion, informed Vivek Dhakras in a press
conference on Thursday. The late Balaji Shete started a public Ganeshotsav in the house of
his father in 1949. Within a few years, Ganeshotsav took on a larger form. This year is the
100th year of the Ganeshotsav celebrated on the Passage. Every year, the Board conducts
the social and national exchange of ideas. Mahamahopadhyay Balashistra Hardas, Pandit Tr.
frrom Madhokalkar to Comrade A. B. There have been interpretations of different thinkers
like Bardhan. This year, on Wednesday 7th September, Pt. Shaunak Abhishek, Pt. Triveni
Sangam of Anand Bhate, Manjusha Patil's Marathi Bhagat and Easy Music will be held at Chitnis Park in the Mahala at 7.30pm. On Monday, September 7th, Major (Retd) Gaurav Arya will have a lecture on ' Surgical Strike, Air Strike&#39. On Tuesday, September 7, Kumar Biswas will give a lecture on ' Secularism and Sectarianism&#39. Apart from this, various religious activities will take place during the festival. Due to the floods this year, the amount collected during the festival will be paid to the flood victims. Girish Puranik, Robin Jaipurkar, Sanjay Rao and others will be present on the occasion.

Nagpur is almost very excited and gearing up its speed for the most awaited festival of the year Ganesh Chaturti. From many time many NGOs have been promoting and working on different ideas of Eco-friendly Lord Ganesha. By raising more awareness in people about the environment more and more people are joining and are ready to bring home Eco- friendly Ganesha. Making Lord Ganesha with more harmful colours and Plaster of Paris is very hazardous for the environment. There are different ideas for making an eco-friendly idol of Lord Ganesha and are as follows

• Tree Ganesha
This idol of Lord Ganesha are made of neem seeds inserted in four sizes 9,12,
15 and 18 inches. During immersion, you need to put idol in the pot with soil and
water. Book this Idol of lord Ganesha in Nagpur

• Cowdung Ganesha
Ganesha idols made using natural clay, paper mache, cow dung, and wood.
The idols are painted with natural pigments such as turmeric, spinach, red
earth, and Multani maati. The idols can easily be immersed at homes in a bucket of water and are available in the sizes of 2.5 and 5.5 at very pocket-friendly prices.

• Paper Mache Ganesha
Idols of Lord Ganesha are made by using crushed papers and are also available
up to 15 inches. It gets dissolved easily in 30 minutes in water.

• Clay Ganesha
Idols are made from paper mache and clay Ganesha's. The idols are available
from 13 inches to two feet and are coloured in watercolours. The idols take 30
minutes to two hours to dissolve in water.

• Light Weight Paper Ganesha
Idol is made with paper and clay. Paper Ganesha is very strong there is wastage of paper after immersion paper can be dried out and can be sent for recycling. In order to protect water bodies of Nagpur most of the citizens are ready to
prefer artificial tank for idols immersion. This year let’s welcome Lord Ganesha Eco-Friendly.