Bombay story

In India, it is said that Ganesh, the elephant god, is equipped with special powers of perception. He is also a ‘recycler’ god, he is supposed to swallow all the ills of the world and purify them. This is probably the first truly green god. During the festival devoted to Ganesh every year in September in Mumbai, he comes down to earth to do his job of ‘recycling’, before being immersed in the sea. All families are supposed to feed idols of Ganesh at home through rituals and then accompany their idols to the sea where they are abandoned to their fate. At the end of Ganesh festival, the bay of Bombay is full of idols of elephant gods in plaster lying underwater. But who knows what the perception of a god is made of?