Then we went over to the big event. Big crowds of people were standing on the side of the road, watching the parade of Ganeshes. Mobs of people were in the procession too, from all over the city. And this was just one procession, and not the biggest one. There are a lot of people in this city.

The statues were most often in the back of trucks, so you couldn’t see them until the truck had driven by, but the procession moved so slowly that you could easily walk up behind the truck and look at the statues.