Bappa-the eternal vighnaharta..

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 The ten day long Ganapati festival is going to begin from 22nd August ( the fourth day of Bhadrapada) in Maharashtra. The event marks the beginning of festival season in India especially in the Western part.


This year, due to pandemic, the mood id somber with the mandal authorities are either cancelling the festival or keeping it low-key.


The Ganesh festival which generally used to be celebrated in every household in Maharashtra was made a public event by the Great Bal Gangadhar Tilak with an objective to bring people on a common platform in order to thwart the British. The idea clicked and later took a mammoth shape as people from all walks of life celebrate the occasion with much frenzy, enthusiasm and fervour. The pandals are decorated with the idol drawing all attention and people line in for darshan. The dhol tasha, loud music mixed with religious songs played at top decibel entertain young and old alike.


This pandemic has played a dampener  with the thought process of people having taken a U turn. With social distancing having become the order of the day a congregation of people which is the hallmark of festival has become a great no-no.


Anyways, despite the scare, despite the economic setback the nation has undergone,  Bappa is going to come home and every individual will worship Him with their heart out. Bappa who is considered a member of a family will definitely listen to the prayers and complaints of His disciples and restore the normalcy -this belief in every mind will mark this festival this year. Faith is afterall a belief in unseen. Bappa will come and again make the adage true..

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