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BERLIN, GERMANY, January 27, 2004: The four-month run of the Ganesha exhibit at Berlin’s Ethnology Museum at Dahlem will come to a close next week on January 31st. The final day will culminate with a puja to Ganesha performed by Berlin Hindus in the museum itself. The exhibition outlines different aspects of Ganesh worship using centuries-old stone sculptures, bronze and modern clay figures, miniature paintings, textile pictures and a modern family altar. The creation of clay Ganeshas for the annual Visarjana worship, procession and immersion is displayed on photo walls. How the ceremony with its processions are performed outside of India, in Paris and in Berlin, is also pictured. This highly positive and animated report from the German newspaper at “source” (in German) makes a good attempt to describe India’s love for Ganesha and tells the familiar stories of his “birth” and how he broke his tusk.

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