Explaining Mumbai’s insatiable fondness for Ganesh Chaturthi : The world’s most pricey real estate, the country’s worst population densities, the world’s most expensive home, the country’s largest slum population, maximum tax revenues – Mumbaiites like their city’s superlatives . So it’s befitting I guess that the numbers should not disappoint when we refer to the city’s favourite festive spectacle. So, here goes: What’s the capacity of Tokyo’s proposed helmet-shaped space-age stadium for the 2020 Olympics? Eighty thousand. Number of daily visitors to the Tirupati Balaji temple, believed to be the country’s richest deity? 1 lakh. Population of a small country, say Trinidad & Tobago? 13 lakh. And how many Mumbaikars celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi? Fifteen to twenty lakh visitors expected to a single idol, Lalbaugcha Raja, over ten days, with as many as five lakh visitors on a single day. And how many idols does Mumbai have to select from? In 2005, there were 8,800 ‘sarvajanik Ganesh mandals’ (organisers of idol-displays for public viewing). That number is now 11,400. Read more at: firstpost/india/explaining-mumbais-insatiable-fondness-for-ganesh-chaturthi-1094535.html?utm_source=ref_article
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:12:58 +0000
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