Anand Mahindra bids farewell to Ganpati Bappa in unique way. Watch video

Billionaire businessman Anand Mahindra took to Twitter to wish his followers a happy Ganesh Visarjan. It was a clip of an elephant calf waving his trunk wildly. Mahindra shared the clip as a way of marking the culmination of Ganesh Chaturthi.



Ganesh Visarjan is the last day of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival, where people say goodbye to Ganesh and pray for him to come back next year with equal happiness and blessings.

FAQs:

What did Anand Mahindra's Twitter post say?
A day after everybody celebrated the ceremony of immersion of Ganesha's idol, Anand Mahindra shared this clip of an elephant saying that it looks like Ganpati Bappa is bidding them farewell in the video. It followed the Marathi lines: Ganpati, you are like my father, and please come back soon next year. His caption ended with a sweet goodbye.

What did the Twitter users comment on the photo?
One of the users commented mockingly, "How come Ganpati is in Africa?"

Another user said that the flailing of the elephant's trunk reminded them of cricketer Ravindra Jadeja's signature celebratory move after taking a wicket.

About Ganesh Visarjan:

Ganesh Visarjan is the last day of a 10-day festival celebrated predominantly in Maharashtra. On this day, people bid farewell to Lord Ganesh and prayed that he would come back to their homes the next year to shower their blessings.

On Ganesh Visarjan, statues of Ganesh are taken to the nearest water bodies and immersed. The path to the water and till the immersion is celebrated in a grand way with a lot of dancing and music.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the nation, the festivities were toned down, and a lot of precautions were taken. This year, however, those precautions were lifted, and people celebrated to their heart's content.

A lot of people celebrated Ganesh Visarjan, and thousands came together at Mumbai's Girgaon Chowpatty for the immersion ceremony of Ganesh's statues.