New Delhi: Indian cities on Thursday bid adieu to Lord Ganesh on Anant Chaturdashi as the curtains fell on the 11-day Ganeshotsav festivities.


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Meanwhile, a video has surfaced on the social media showing a white mouse, generally believed to be Ganesh's vehicle, picking up money donated by devotees.


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Notably, the Ganesh festival, initiated in an open public format in 1892 by Mumbai's Bhausaheb Laxman Javale alias Bhau Rangari, entered the 125th year.


It was popularised on a mass scale by freedom fighter Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak from 1893 in Pune to unite the people against the British Raj.