Photo Gallery: Celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi At MHS
Celebrators of Ganesh Chaturthi came together yesterday, September 16, at Marquette to celebrate the holiday.
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The festival is a prayer service for the Elephant God, Ganesh, so they can have a year of the God’s blessing. Marquette has allowed them to host this service at Marquette for the last 24 years.
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Hema Srikanta, founder of the organization of the festival at Marquette, enjoys attending the festival. “Even though we are away from home, we are all able to get together here, and recreate what was back at home.” Srikanta said. “The best part is the kids participating and learning our prayers and chanting it here. It’s really wonderful. They are born and brought up here but they shows lot of interest in learning and continuing our traditions.”
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At the service primarily vegetarian food is served as most people who practice Hinduism don’t eat meat.
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Sabrina Lacy, senior, is the In-Depth Editor for the Messenger. She is also involved in Mock Trial and Creative Writing Club. Outside of MHS, Sabrina enjoys...
