{"id":11371,"date":"2012-10-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/10\/10\/karachi-too-resonated-with-bappa-morya\/"},"modified":"2012-10-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T12:00:00","slug":"karachi-too-resonated-with-bappa-morya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/10\/10\/karachi-too-resonated-with-bappa-morya\/","title":{"rendered":"Karachi Too Resonated With &#8220;Bappa Morya&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/2012-09-28\/india\/34147454_1_swaminarayan-mandir-ganesh-idol-ganesh-chaturthi\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MUMBAI, INDIA, September 28, 2012 (India Times): Away from the odiousness and mercuriality of international politics, Jaikumar Trivedi last week installed a Ganesh statue in the heart of Swaminarayan Mandir on Ganesh Chaturthi. The next day, Ganpati Bappa was taken around the temple premises in a rath yatra. Bhajans resonated, dandiya raas followed, and then a bhandara. Finally, the elephant-headed God was taken in a simple procession to a jetty in Karachi and immersed in the sea. <\/p>\n<p>In India, Bal Gangadhar Tilak transformed the annual Ganeshotsav festival into a large, well-organized public event. In Pakistan though, it survives as a communal, domestic event. Its scale is small, the pandals missing from roadsides, the modaks replaced with motichoor ladoos. But the fervor of the devotees undeniably is as strong.<\/p>\n<p>In Karachi alone, at least 1,000 people take part, says Maharaj Parshuram, a priest. &#8220;The tradition of celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi has been continuing here since pre-Independence.&#8221; Indeed, as Pakistani film distributor Satish Anand points out, the festival is second only to Holi in popularity. It is observed wherever Hindus live in considerable numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Trivedi, the priest at Swaminarayan Mandir, says at least 25 to 30 statues are taken to homes and temples in and around Karachi. Most of the statue makers live in Karachi. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have a holiday here, so people work around their schedules and come together to celebrate in the evenings,&#8221; says Trivedi. That does not imply the government does not provide support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source MUMBAI, INDIA, September 28, 2012 (India Times): Away from the odiousness and mercuriality of international politics, Jaikumar Trivedi last,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}