Dunking Ganesh (updated)
On Anant Chaturdashi in Bombay, the day the Ganesh murtis are dunked (it goes until 6 am):
Holi colors:
Firecrackers. In Juhu there was a string 50 yards long that exploded for four minutes straight:
Drummer and keyboard on a vegetable handcart:
Juhu Beach was a zoo:
Man blowing bubbles:
This one took four sweating topless uncles to carry into the waves:
Sand threshers ready for the morning:
Robot fortune teller…
… with rad headphones:
Juhu Marriott’s rooms have angled windows so everyone gets a beach view:
Anti-pissing icons have most religions covered:
But if you’re Jewish, you’re home free.
Baywatch:
They laid down steel plates so trucks could back up onto the beach and disgorge the largest murtis:
Sikh man and his son on a Ganesh float:
DJ dancing:
Biggest saffron flag I’ve seen yet:
Drummers were jammin’:
A video of the dancing:
A nicely-done TV ad:
More photos by Amit Kulkarni from last year.
Update: Photos of the aftermath, the following morning.
on Thursday, September 7th, 2006, 2:32 am in Bombay, Holidays, Photos, Religion › 
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Great pics, Manish! :-)
well worth a sprained ankle, isn’t it? call us barbarians and what not, but there’s something wonderful about watching people having fun - man, woman, child, vegetable. =D now if only they would keep the delirium to one street (instead of clogging up every single access route) so that some of us could get to “lagey raho munnabhai”….