Ganesh #3

It was the last night before they would be taking all the Ganesh idols all over Hyderabad to be immersed in the Hussain Sagar Lake in the centre of the city. Before dinner I ran down a block away to the Kothaguda cross roads in my little village of Kondapur.

I had just discovered that there was a video option on my camera! Sorry, I'm not so technical. I took several videos of the festivities, and these three are my favourite.


They were taking down the Ganesh temple that they created just for the festival. The Ganesh temple is the structure in the above photo with all the lights.

They had loaded up Ganesh on to their truck and the drums were getting warmed up to make the long trek into the heart of Hyderabad to immerse Ganesh along with the 10,000 other Ganesh idols and their worshipers who were already heading to Hussain Sagar Lake.


I couldn't stay so long because dinner was ready in 30 minutes. I just want to post the video I made of the drummers.

I just wanted to add the below photo. When I was filming the guys who were dancing (in the above video), they ran up to me and asked me to dance with them.

Of course, I could not say no, so again I was dragged into the dancing Ganesh mob.

The two guys in the photo waited for me and escorted me back to the apartment. saving me from having powder thrown on me and dancing for hours and ending up kilometres away.

The both work at the service apartments where I live.

The one on the left is part of the staff that brings me my meals every day and the one on the right drives me to work.

I've heard their names plenty of times, but Indian names are very complicated, it's not that easy to remember them all.

My goal is that by the end of my adventure here in Hyderabad, I'll have memorized the entire staff at the apartments. I like them all. They are all so kind and helpful... they deserve it.