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(27 Aug 2025)
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New Delhi - 27 August 2025
1. Split screen of people dancing
2. Mid of people carrying idol of Ganesha towards pandal
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohini Umesh Totre, 22, devotee:
“This is not a festival for Maharashtrians. It’s an emotion for Maharashtrians.Ganpati (Hindu God Ganesha) is our everything, literally. This festival brings joy, it brings people, community, every kind together.”
4. Wide of people carrying idol of elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha, drummers
5. Close of woman dancing
6. Split screen, pan from drummers to people dancing (left), and mid of Ganesha (right)
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Omkar Gajanand Pisar, Devotee:
“Pray that people, you know, start being more kind and spread love as much as possible. Stop hating people, you know, and try to carry everybody around with you in a good spirit.”

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Mumbai - 27 August 2025
8. Mid of worshippers with idol of Ganesha
9. Split screen, people carrying idol of Ganesha to their home (left), and people buying flowers (right)
10. Split screen, people dancing next to idol of Ganesha inside car (left), and wide of people carrying idol of Ganesha on cart (right)
STORYLINE:
The popular Ganesha festival began on Wednesday, with Hindu devotees across India celebrating the birthday of elephant-headed Hindu god over 10 days.

The annual festival holds immense significance and popularity among Hindus.

All Hindu prayers begin with an invocation to Ganesha and believers say he has powers to remove all obstacles.

Elaborate and decorated idols of Ganesha are set up in homes and at temporary public shrines where the worshippers gather to offer prayers.

In New Delhi, devotees led a small procession of Ganesha, dancing to drumbeats.

"This festival brings joy, it brings people, community, every kind together,” said Mohini Umesh Totre, a devotee.

The festival ends on Sept 6 with the immersion of the idols in rivers and the sea in a ritual that symbolizes sending the god back to his mythical home.

AP Video shot by Shonal Ganguly and Rafiq Maqbool

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