It's the season of festivals in India and the most awaited festival in the state of Maharashtra is Ganeshotsav .. celebration of Lord Ganesh for 10 days. For these 10 days everybody offers prayers to the Ganesh. And prayers are just the beginning there is lot more happening around - procession, dance, music, drawing and many other competitions for children and stage that gives some message to the community.
As miles away from the homeland, Indian community in the Fargo, ND decided to recreate the festive atmosphere on the Fargo streets and started Ganeshotsav. Started as a small event in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Vaidya in the year 2000 now it has became a big event on the Indian calendar in Fargo.
This year a next step taken as festival committee decided to held a small procession on the downtown streets in Fargo. It was wonderful experience to see sari clad beautiful women and men in kurtas in the morning, playing a traditional marathi musical instrument, Lezim. It made me remember my school days when I used to take part in the procession and played lezim. The way of procession was around 4 - 5 blocks and even people from other cultures were present to greet it. Yah, and mayors from all the 3 cities, Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo were the invite
es for the event.
For you guys I am uploading some of the pics of the event. These are taken from my cell phone camera so not of so good quality but its ok in small size ...
Lezim
People on the street.
Lezim playing - making a nice circular formation
Ganesh idol
I would also like to share link of the website for the Ganeshotsav with you: http://ganeshpooja.fargotsav.org/index.html
Hope to see bigger event for the next year ...
Ganpati bappa morya .. !!!
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