Click to play videoMumbai: Every year the queues before Lord Ganesha the benevolent, the all merciful get bigger and bigger.
So what do people who cannot come bow before the god? Well, they turn to the Internet of course. The Net has a few websites where the faithful can take a bow at a click. One of the best is www.ganeshfestival.com. The brainchild of Devabrat Bapat it attracts thousands of devotees each year.
“Let me quote one guy to you - he said when I saw your dholejim, and I have been away studying in Wharton for the last two years, tears flowed out of my eyes,” says Bapat.
The website allows the devotee to see live streaming videos of aartis, chant along with the pujas along with the usual donation facilities.
The cameras at the sanctum sanctorum of Mumbai's famous Siddhivinayak temple beam images through the Internet to devotees across the world.
“I often log on to the temple site whenever I'm far away from Mumbai,” says a devotee, Milind.
So this Ganesh Chaturthi, if you miss going to the temple, all you need to do is log on. After all if the good lord is omnipresent, so is the Internet.
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