U know it is Ganesh Chathurthi when…
1) When u suddenly see that the roads are reduced to half its original size as its now the resting place for Ganpati Bappa.
2) When you are deprived of ur afternoon seista with the raunchy remixes blaring out of the sound boxes from the pandal below ur apartment.
3) When your usual way back home is jam packed with people and trucks and mini trucks and sumos and carts carrying gapati is slowly chugging behind men with saffron bands tied to their and women in nine yard sarees dancing to the beats of the dhols
4) When the boys of the mohalla come asking for ganpati pandal chanda, and is always pushing to pool in a extra buck as vargani.
5) When half the public in office is on a week long vacation and their work is piled on your head.
Ok people dont mistake me to be a anti- Ganesh Chathurthi person, infact there are a lot of good reasons too, and here they go ….
6) When the entire building is decked up like a bride with lights and streamers.
7)When the aunty next door treats you with a plate full of delicious modak.
8)When your employer gives you a holiday for celebration
9)When you smell the fragrance of incense every where instead of the stinking sewage water (thnk Ganesha )
10)When you find sale written across all the doors and windos of the shops.
Ganesh Chathurthi wishes to all !
When u hear nashik dhol everywhere and following that u see everyone’s face split in a hugee grin
when the newspapers do not take their usual place in the morning the day after Ganesh Chauth, while they work on August 15th..
When you walk on the street and truckful of roadchaaps whistle, tease and then say Ganpathi Bappa Morya!!
When the road is as brightly lit as Diwali (maybe even more) at 12 in the night!! with people laughing and joking in groups. (they cant create too huge a chaos coz of the deadline!!)