Every year following Ganesh
Chathurthi, immersion of idols takes place at Chennai’s seashores on the first
or second Sundays, that depend on the celebration of the festival. Here are
photos shot at our nearest beach (Palavakkam) which is allotted for the idols
kept around south Chennai to get immersed and on this day, the idols kept
flowing into the beach front following number of processions. A Sunday back we tried
to check the beach to see the immersion, but we couldn’t make it possible and the
roads to the beach were blocked by row of vehicles standing for a km. The picture
above and below are few years old, showing the idols kept on the beach before
cranes uplift them into the sea and a fishermen taking an idol in the catamaran
to immerse into the sea.
P.S. Posting under the series PowerShot
Sunday
15 comments:
Great captures Jeevan!
interesting tradition!
Adieu till next year:)
I read somewhere that they were immersing a silver/gold statue. Not sure which beach it is :)
Nice pics, BTW.
Destination Infinity
Sheer beautiful idols!
Excellent capture..
Pictures are very good, Jeevan!
This tradition is not ours, South Indian's tradition. This pollutes the sea more...with all the paints etc. I have seen pictures where people break the idols in the sea with hammers.. Felt sad seeing it.
Ganeshaya namah!
Lovely photographs. But the colors and the plaster of Paris (isn,t it), is bothering me.
You always treat fair with photography! nice clicks..:)
Nice pictures.
Lovely shots of this tradition.
Beautiful, I love this festival.
This raised my eyebrows! Interesting indeed!
When these gods are not able to save themselves how will they save us?
Hello!
I am writing to you from a distant Polish ...
I have problems with English. You can install Translete?
You have a fantastic blog and wonderful pictures.
Greetings.
Lucia
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