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Pathetic Procession

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Lord Ganesh being the first worship God begins the festive season of 10 days of fervor celebrated with great pomp and show across the globe by Hindu communities. It was around 1893 , Bal Gangadhar Tilak , who nationalized this festival with the motive to restore cultural balances and indomitable spirit of Hinduism .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, at a time when all social and political gatherings were forbidden by the British Empire for fear of conspiracies to be hatched against them. In 21 st century the grim reality is that its purpose is defeated, now a days different samiti’s are engaging this festivals by collecting donation forcefully from all the nearby colonies, merchants so as to devolve receipts in to a making pandals, procession , Idol, decoration , etc. Peopl