The Hindu festival celebrated in honour of lord Ganesh. Very auspicious day celebrated to pray to the god so that every new activity that is started is successfully completed without any obstacles. GANESHCHATURTHI a festival of spirituality also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi Hindu calendar month of Bhaadrapada Starts on 4th – 14th where; 4th day = shukla chaturthi 10th day= Anant Chaturdashi Date falls between Aug and Sept It lasts for 10 days Widely worshipped as: the God of *wisdom, *prosperity and, *good fortune was being celebrated as a public event in Pune to promote culture and nationalism fall of the Peshwas, GaneshChaturthi lost state patronage became a private family celebration. RE-RISE BY LOKMANYA TILAK His real name was Bal Gangadhar Tilak was Indian freedom *fighter and, *social reformer introduced a new way of celebrating the Ganapati festival he made this fest as collective community worship. It was the era where Indian was struggling for independence. leaders and freedom fighters all over India teamed. put up a united resistance to the British domination. One of these eminent leaders was Bal Gangadhar Tilak; an Indian nationalist* a social reformer* and, freedom fighter* He was a great Visionary person. Tilak realized the cultural importance of this popularised Ganesha Chaturthi as a National Festival Behind this festival his intention was to bridge the gap between the : Brahmins* and, the non-Brahmins* to build a new grassroots Unity* between them against the British in Maharashtra He knew that India couldn't fight her rulers until she solved the differences within her own. Hence, to unite all social classes Tilak chose this Ganesha festival; *as a rallying point for Indian protest against British rule It was around 1893, during the nascent stages of Indian nationalism, that Tilak began to organize the Ganesha Utsav as a social and religious function. He was the first to put in large public images of Ganesha in pavilions and establish the tradition of their immersion on the tenth day. The festival facilitated community participation and involvement in the form of : *learned discourses, *dance dramas, *poetry recital, *musical concerts, *debates, etc. It served as a meeting place for common people of all castes and communities it was a time when all social and political gatherings were forbidden by the British Empire for fear of conspiracies to be hatched against them. An important festival during the Peshwa’s era, Ganesha Chaturthi acquired at this time a more organized form all over India largely due to Lokmanya's efforts. Since then, Ganesha Chaturthi has been celebrated throughout Maharashtra.

1. Presented by:
Rabia Sagheer

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3. 4th day = shukla chaturthi
10th day= Anant Chaturdashi

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6. BY LOKMANYA TILAK

16. Famous
Lal bagh ka RAJA, Mumbai
Ganapati sthaapna
Ganapati Idol at Pune Ganesha Idol at Vadodara
Ganesha at Tamil Nadu2011 India's Biggest
Ganesha Murti
(more than 70 feet)
in Vishakhapatnam

17. Tamil dancers on the streets of Paris during 2009 Ganesha
festival

18. An artist at work, Margao, Goa

19. GANAPATI VISARJAN (Immersion)
at various
places
Ganesha Visarjan in Mumbai Immersion in Hyderabad

21. Aarti
Ramdas