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This Ganpati Bappa didn’t want to say goodbye
Updated On: 04 September, 2022 07:42 AM IST | Mumbai | Nidhi Lodaya
For nearly 50 years now, the Pilankars of Vasai have been performing puja of a right-trunked Ganesh idol that the family patriarch first found at Dadar Chowpatty
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The Pilankar family with their clay Ganpati idol. Pic/Anurag Ahire
While devotees are immersing Ganpati idols in the sea, a Vasai-based family is celebrating the gift of this immersion in their home.
Nearly 50 years ago, the patriarch of the Pilankar family, late Sitaram Madhusudan Pilankar, found a Ganpati idol resting on the seabed while bathing at Dadar Chowpatty. This was just a few days after the Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations. Instead of leaving it there, Sitaram, who was a pujari, brought it back home.
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