A 2,200 Kg laddu for this 52 ft Ganesha!

A sweetmaker from Tappeswaram in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh has offered a huge 'laddu' weighing over 2,000 kilogram to the 52-feet tall Ganesh idol at Khairatabad.

"The 2,200-kg laddu contains 150 kg dry fruits, 250 kg ghee,600 kg sugar and 400 kg of Chana dal. Prepared completely with Ghee it will remain fresh for a month," Mallikarjuna Rao Head of Suruchi Foods, Tappeswaram told mediapersons.Read More................A 2,200 Kg laddu for this 52 ft Ganesha!

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It's all about Lord Ganesha

Today is Lord Ganesha's day in India & Happy "Ganesh Chaturthi" to all. Now here are interesting stories related to that. On this day Hindu God "Lord Ganesha" is worshipped in the form of Idols, some of them are so big & costly that this time one Ganesh idol in Mumbai was insured for Rs.26.5 millions.

In another case: A Bangalore-based painter's love for Ganesha is taking him to different parts of India hunting for idols and images of the elephant-headed god. In three years he has gathered 30,000 pieces. His aim is to take the collection to 100,000 in the next seven years. Anyway God is God & devotion to God is good thing only, some people leave all their material possesions in search of God, here the guy is just collecting Lord's Idol. Hey, salute to you for your devotion to Lord Ganesha.

Anyways, I too love Lord Ganesha & you can read a few articles on Him on my another Blog "Gita Blog" at http://gita-blog.blogspot.com/ . You can see some musical videos too on Lord Ganesha at my religious musical video channel at You Tube here.....http://www.youtube.com/user/weirdindia . Over here you can find many more religious musical videos.

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Devotees face Rs. 4 million fine

Organisers of a Ganesh Puja marquee in the national capital-New Delhi have been caught stealing power and are likely to face a fine of Rs.4 million.

A theft detection squad of power distribution company BSES caught organisers of a Ganesh Puja 'pandal' in Karol Bagh for stealing 107 KW of electricity.Read full story..........Ganesh devotees face Rs.4 mn fine over power theft

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'Elephant Boy' is now back in School

Earlier "Ganesh Vaibhav" was called the "Elephant Boy", but no longer now. Ganesh, aged six-years from India was born with the grotesque, life-threatening facial deformity. The boy, named after Ganesha, an Indian god with a trunk-like nose, became news in India after his father wrote to an ETV producer, asking him to profile the boy on TV. Ganesh's father supports his family by fermenting milk to make yogurt.

Reports in Indian newspapers said Ganesh's strange appearance caused him to be shunned. He had few friends and some schools denied him admission.

Now thanks to an operation of more than 10 hours, performed in India by a surgical team led by Sarnia plastic surgeon Sanjeev Kaila, Ganesh has a nose and eyes that look normal. Earlier Doctors told his father Ganesh would lose his eyes and possibly his life if they operated.

"It's a great nose, a cute button nose," said nurse Sheila Groombridge, who accompanied Kaila to southern India for the surgery at the NRI Academy of Sciences at Vijayawada in India.

Gone is the mass of brain tissue, covered only by stretched muscle and skin, that protruded from a hole between Ganesh's eyes, like a short elephant trunk.
The rare congenital skull defect, called a nasofrontal meningocele, put the boy at risk of such potentially fatal brain diseases as meningitis.

"The health risk is gone," said Kaila.

"Ganesh is healthy. He looks normal. He's back with his family and back in school.

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