Panaji: Its homecoming for several Goans when the ten-day long Ganesh Chaturthi also known as ‘Chovoth' would be celebrated across Konkan including the state from September 9 onwards.
The Konkan Railway Corporation Limited has been running special trains to clear the festival rush while the interstate buses connecting Goa to Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and other destinations has passengers arriving in the state.
“Its usually a time for families to come together and spend time. Its a reunion,” Sanket Bandodkar, a youth living in Valpoi village said.
Sanket who is studying in a college in Panaji will return to his native in Valpoi on Sunday.
“The entire family will be back only after immersing Lord Ganesh which will be on the fifth day,” he said.
Ganesh Chaturthi is commonly known as Chovoth in Goa wherein almost all the Hindu households worship the elephant headed God.
There are more than 100 sarvajanik ganeshotsav mandals, where larger than life size Idols are worshipped by the community.
“From today Goa will be in the villages. Energy will flow, closed houses will open, old friends will meet, minds will reconnect, hearts will beat,” commented Sandesh
Prabhudesai, renowned journalist, who has his ancestral house at Mashem in Canacona taluka.
