Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a prominent leader in India's struggle for independence, played a pivotal role in transforming Ganesh Chaturthi from ... the Muslim community. During his tour of Sindh that ...

It was only much later, in 1893, that social reformer Lokmanya Tilak restored ... Shukla Chaturthi, i.e. Ganesh Chaturthi. Priests chanted Brahmanaspatisukta daily and fasted during the entire ...

It was during India's freedom struggle that Lokmanya Tilak changed Ganesh Chaturthi from a private celebration to a grand public festival where people from all castes of the society can come ...

Ganesh Utsav ... years on this Ganesh Chaturthi. The idea of public gala celebration of Ganesh festival was initiated by the great Indian leader Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, whom the British ...

Lokmanya Tilak transformed Ganesh Chaturthi from a private celebration into a major public holiday where people from all castes of society could gather, pray and be together during India's War of ...

Photographs: Jewella Miranda/Rediff.com In 1893, at the quiet Keshavji Naik Chawl, Girgaum, south Mumbai, at freedom fighter Lokmanya Tilak's ... celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi every year was ...

Ganesh Chaturthi is a ... and the purpose that Tilak had behind it have long been forgotten. A Punarvasu Naik directorial, ‘Vakratunda Mahakaaya’ released during Ganeshotsav which was well ...

Lokmanya Tilak popularised Ganesh utsav. The cultural and religious events held during the Ganesh festival celebrations saw open anti-British propaganda. (Wikimedia) In August 1893, there was a ...

Independence leader Lokmanya Tilak converted Ganesh Chaturthi from a day of private prayers held in homes into one of the biggest religious celebrations in the world. The area's cultural and urban ...