{"id":16409,"date":"2018-09-22T11:19:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T08:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=16409"},"modified":"2018-09-22T11:19:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T08:19:37","slug":"hindu-press-international-sep-22-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/sanatana-dharma\/hindu-press-international\/hindu-press-international-sep-22-2018","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Press International- Sep 22, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maharashtra Rolls Out Red Carpet for Lord Ganesha<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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MUMBAI, INDIA, September 13, 2018 (Daiji World): Maharashtra rolled out the red carpet for the popular elephant-headed God, Lord Ganesha as the state immersed itself in the 10-day long and biggest public festival on Thursday. Around one million gigantic, big and small statues of Lord Ganesha have reached the homes of the commoner people, celebrities, industrialists and politicians, housing complexes, waadis\/waadas, private and public companies, besides the huge or gigantic ones at public marquees organized by Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandals in Mumbai and all over the state.<\/p>\n

In Mumbai, an estimated 300,000-plus big and small statues of Lord Ganesha will be installed at private and public venues, and around a million across Maharashtra, said Naresh Dahibhavkar, President of the Brihanmumbai Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Samanvay Samiti (BSGSS). Mumbai has nearly 11,500 big-ticket Ganeshotsav associations with budgets of several crores of rupees. Celebrations started in cities like Pune, Nagpur, Nashik, Kolhapur and coastal Konkan, where Ganeshotsav is the most important festival in the annual calendar, surpassing even Diwali.<\/p>\n

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Hindu Ceremony Sees Lord Ganesha Statues Immersed in Sea at Clacton<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"UNITED KINGDOM, September 17, 2018 (Gazette): Hundreds of worshippers descended upon Clacton’s West Beach for a special Hindu ceremony. The ceremony of Ganesha Visarjan saw final offerings made to Lord Ganesha before two statues were taken out into the sea and immersed in the water on Sunday. It brought an end to ten days of prayer and celebration. The annual event was made up of two London temples and attracted a large crowd of onlookers. Mick Skeels, Tendring Council’s cabinet member for leisure and tourism, attended the event. He said: ”As always I was delighted to welcome the temples to Clacton, and along with some of our Beach Patrol members I received a blessing before the statues were immersed into the sea.<\/p>\n

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Hindu Festival Draws Hundreds to Botley<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"UNITED KINGDOM, September 18, 2018 (Oxford Mail): Hundreds of people joined in Oxford’s first Ganesh Utsav festival. People of different cultures embraced the Hindu celebration in Botley on Saturday which boasted a colorful mix of traditional dress, dancing, singing and street food. The festival,which celebrated the elephant-headed God Ganesh’s birthday, ended with a procession of around 100 people from the Matthew Arnold School to the River Thames to submerge a statue of Ganesh in the water, as per tradition. The whole thing was organized and paid for by husband and wife Sesh and Jyoti Parimi, who said they wanted to give something back to the community which had welcomed them so warmly following their move to Oxford two years ago. ”We had around 400 people come in and out throughout the day, there were a lot of people there from all backgrounds who were interested to know more, to look to see what was going on and to join in.<\/p>\n

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Daily Inspiration<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Of all blessings we know of none greater than the begetting of children endowed with intelligence.
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Maharashtra Rolls Out Red Carpet for Lord Ganesha Source MUMBAI, INDIA, September 13, 2018 (Daiji World): Maharashtra rolled out the red carpet for the popular elephant-headed God, Lord Ganesha as the state immersed itself in the 10-day long and biggest public festival on Thursday. Around one million gigantic, big and small statues of Lord Ganesha have reached the homes of the commoner people, celebrities, industrialists and politicians, housing complexes, waadis\/waadas, private and public companies, besides the huge or gigantic ones at public marquees organized by Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandals in Mumbai and all over the state. In Mumbai, an estimated 300,000-plus <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindu-press-international","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}