” GANAPATI  FESTIVAL”

Sorry, said he, my friend one from the Maharashtra state Boiler  department.  But said I, you don’t have IJJAT for man & even for a delicious food offered. What sorry, in which form there is sorry, you are asking for … I knew  even the boiler officer came at partition time, an officer who sold  SANTRA GOLI in Nasik, not to have more CHAPPATIES in THALI to take BHOJAN and even no money to travel are now in  the Boiler department as an officers, I am aware of.
        There was a pause, then a silent whims and then the situation of my friend in nearby PUBLIC RUSH. He said, I could not call you because there was such a rush of GANAPATI. Even we walked for a kilometer or two to avoid the GANPATI UTTSAV traffic, he said. I diluted my tension and said to him yes GANAPATI UTTASAV started by Tilak and he was from Pune. Contrary I should say, he explored and told me that…
      Ganpati festival was before Tilak. It was there in existence … yes,   it made SARVAJANIK UTTASAV by Tilak, he said.  And he extended that UTTASAV  in KOKAN,  the place of his Father law, I murmurs.  … PADHA  LIKHA KUCH TO NAYA KARTA HAI, apne DESH ke liye.
       But sir, we took our meals very late and with the workers of the hotel, because of you. I replied.
      I rang you and was suppose to asked you your pre engagement, if there is. But the reason for that not conveyed by you. I was presuming your inability to reach at the dinning hall. But there was hope, since I were In Pune, sir.  Yes, I know, GANPATI festival celebrated in every house in Kokan and its pooja is  for a day, for One and half day. Even gfor Two days or Five days Ganapati pooja at home. But SARVAJANI GANAPATI  UTSAV,  the festival that continued  Ganapati Pooja for ten days.   And you have to forget your corral in Ganapati Darshan, which is the natural law in existence from years in Kokan. I continued. Yes, those were the days of hate in our Hindu & Muslim communities, I continued.    Those days were of PAHEL WANKI and you are a bodybilder PAHELWAN one used to realized from ones own Mush. TALWAR CUT muscatels were seen in those days marathi films by the time of Ramesh Dev and then after in the film character of Raja Gosavi. And see the photo of BALA GANGANDHAR TILAK. Who joined TALIM (AKHADA) for one year and did not visit the court as a lawyer. When he presumed that he is unable to give a TAKKAR to his MUSLIM BROTHERS.He asked then to the Hindu community to celebrate GANPATI FESTIVAL.
      GANPATI festival celebrated in every house in Kokan and at every corner it called as GANAPATI  UTSAV The festival (Uttsav)  that continued  Ganapati Pooja for ten days.   You have to forget your quarrel in Ganapati Darshan, which is the natural law in existence for Marathi Manus in Kokan. Sir, rush is there too much that you will not get a railway ticket for any destination in Kokan at the Ganpati Festival. I know, that to get the reservation is next to impossible Mr. Santosh Palavkar, said, to me from Mumbai. . See, in Kokan every family member is  present at his/ her home in those ten days festival at any cost ,  Mr. Palavkar talked about. May a man be a officer or he is amongst one who is working abroad, I am told..
       Bal Gangadhar Tilak became hero of strength in Pune but in Kokan from the time of  Raja Maharaja, each  woman became strong in DANPATTA. This was told by my class teacher Mrs. Malati Damale that her mother used to walk on her hands. It was like a KAWAYAT and a routine exercise of women in evening time. Madam told me and she was from Ratnagiri district. Her name was Miss Marathe before her marriage, she used to tell us often. Sward mush cut became, then ones  own pride for the one who safeguarded their family. Those could not : become MUSLIMS in the Kokan, 
       So you may go in Kokan to see their Ganpati festival, sward cut Muscat’s and the Marathi Hindu families names are  as Borkar, Marathe, Kulkarni, Pandit, Deshmukh and so on. The days have gone back and then passed by the years & years. And now they are like one family in Kokan. They all are now celebrating Ganapati, under one roof, and even as one hindu muslim family, a cause of hindu muslim ekta now change in French cut, Maharaja cut, simple cut and Talwar cut of moustache.
       In todays time, in Kokan, they are one, their DHARM may be different. Now they are no more HINDU nor MUSLIMS. Here they are Indians since the  inter cast  marriage held there in Kokan, in large numbers, I am told..