“This 11 day long festival of welcoming Ganesha into our lives and then seeing him off, with immense hope that we will welcome
Him back next year, with more happiness,
pomp and show, has always been our

favourite . We put in all the time, money and effort we could into running this, spent quite a few sleepless nights. But it seemed like nothing at all when we watched people enjoy food they couldn’t in years at the
annadanam, neighbours talk to each other for the first time when they came together to pray, families who couldn’t afford an idol find one larger than they could ever imagine, and the kids laughing and running around! The fact that we got to dance for hours with everyone from
5 year old boys to
70 year old grandmas, all the way down to the lake, well, that’s just the cherry on the cake!”