India's Ganesh Festival: Mumbai Parties, Prays For Elephant-Headed God For 10 days, they sing, dance, chant and pray at the feet of Ganesh statues, then submerge them in water. The festival was ...

Devotees immerse an idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha in the Arabian Sea, during the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) ...

Devotees prepare to immerse in an artificial pond an idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh in Mumbai, India, Aug. 23. India's coronavirus caseload topped 3 million that day, with the country ...

The Universal Society of Hinduism has asked Bond Street Chocolate to withdraw its edible elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh. Society President Rajan Zed says the chocolate statues are an insult to ...

Devotees offers prayers to Idols of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh before they are transported to a place of worship during the Ganesh Chaturti festival in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Sept. 4 ...

Devotees line up to offer prayers and seek blessings at a 52-foot-tall idol of Lord Ganesh in Hyderabad. Credit: NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Images A man, wearing a mask of the Hindu god Ganesh, the ...

For 10 days, they sing, dance, chant and pray at the feet of Ganesh statues, then submerge them in water. The festival was once used to circumvent British rule.