Ganesh Chaturti festival in India with Haidan Kaye (Part 2)

"Ganesh Chaturthi" festival, also known as "Vinayaka Chaturti" is a Hindu festival celebrating the arrival of Ganesh to earth from Kailash Parvat with his mother Goddess Parvati/Gauri.
Lord Ganesh is celebrated as the God of New Beginnings and the Remover of Obstacles as well as the god of wisdom and intelligence and is observed throughout India, especially in the states such as Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, West Bengal, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.
The festival is marked with the installation of Ganesh clay idols privately in homes and publicly. Offerings from the daily prayers are distributed to the community, which include sweets such as modaka as it is believed to be a favorite of Lord Ganesh.
The festival ends on the tenth day after start, when the idol is carried in a public procession with music and group chanting, then immersed in a nearby body of water such as a river or sea.
In Mumbai alone, around 150,000 statues are immersed annually.
Thereafter the clay idol dissolves and Ganesh is believed to return to Mount Kailash to Parvati and Shiva.
Ganesh Chaturthi is also observed in Nepal and by the Hindu diaspora elsewhere such as in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, other parts of the Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius, South Africa, United States, and Europe.
In the Gregorian calendar, Ganesh Chaturthi falls between 22 August and 20 September every year.