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Kolhapur Ganesh: Ganesh Festival 2008 > News
Kolhapur Ganesh
Festival - A Tradition
Karveernagari, city of
Goddess Mahalaxmi is on the move, well set to welcome Gajanan in the
traditional manner and with the touch of specific Kolhapuri style of
hospitality. Over the years celebration of Ganeshaoutsav at Kolhapur
is a strong attraction for the tourists and near by native peoples.
Various Ganesha Mandals are collecting funds and celebrating this
religious festival with a loud and clear message for the social
awareness and in fact this is the attraction which makes Kolhapur
Ganeshaoutsav unique and different.
If you look into history pages of India, during the British rule to
come over on the ban public gathering “Lokmanya Tilak” at Pune
started tradition of celebrating Ganesha Festival on social scales,
the purpose was ended with independence of the country in the 1947
but tradition of this social celebration kept in continuation and
with the changing time purpose is also changed to creating the
social awareness for the various aspects related with social life
and here too Kolhapur Ganesha celebrations emerged as the front
leader along with some other cities like Pune, Nagpur and Mumbai
etc.
Importance of Kolhapur Ganesha celebrations gets more importance
because city is gateway to Kokan, an area which is famous for home
celebration of Ganeshaoutsav, geographical situations of the Kokan
are such that many of youngsters goes to other cities for the jobs
and comes annually to home for Ganeshaa celebrations, as in the area
Kolhapur city is the leading metro hence this enthusiasm and
dedication towards Lord Ganeshaa is reflected and very distinctly
visible in the Kolhapur Ganesha Festival.
Kolhapur Ganesha Festival is famous for specific styled lighting,
presentation of social problems with solution either as live [human
beings playing the roles] scene or in the form of mechanically
active scene. During past years few significant such presentations
are AIDS awareness, Shiv Linga at Amarnath and Global warming etc.
Kolhapur Ganesha Festival is also famous for “Vsarjan Procession”,
star attraction of which is the traditional music squads, Dolby
sound system, and high number of Mandal workers in the same uniform,
eye catching and truly picturesque light decorations.
Size of Ganeshaa Idols is also star attraction of Kolhapur Ganesha
celebrations [exclusive images will be available only at
www.kolhapurworld.com ] here one can find idols up to 21 feet in
height.
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