A small gallery of festival moments, from puja at home to the farewell at the lake. These are freely licensed photographs from Wikimedia Commons, not from this year’s events. The photographer’s credit is under each photo.
A decorated Ganesh idol during puja. Photo: Ashish Suryavanshi858, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.Modak, the traditional offering. Photo: Coolgama, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.Ganesh visarjan at Futala lake, Nagpur. Photo: Chetan Gole, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.Families at a river ghat on Mahalaya. Photo: Goutam1962, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.Lit diyas. Photo: The open draft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A Ganesha idol at a community pandal. Photo: AjayDas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.A clay Ganesha idol at visarjan. Photo: Chetan Gole from Nagpur, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.Deepdaan at Ram Ghat, Ujjain, on Pitru Paksha Amavasya. Photo: Ujjain Chronicles, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
We use only freely licensed photographs and always credit the photographer.
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