Mumbai: Bollywood’s veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan wrote about Ganpati celebrations on his official blog. “Faith must have been and still is the most motivating unseen force within the universe of the human. How else can one explain its power of presence, at every corner of our life”, he wrote.
“The spirit of devotion and celebration has never been so pronounced and voluble as in our part of the world. The sounds of dance and drum, of smiling happy faces, young and old, of the pride in carrying each their homed Ganapati, now ready to be put away where each year it belongs,” Mr Bachchan wrote on his blog.
The actor also said, “They move with a pride of possession – the possession of God, nurtured, decorated and looked after, it is their day, they own the town, the journey to the waters, the preferential command over the traffic.”
He added, “Now perhaps with modern communication, the distance and thedepart may not have similar feel. Skyped and FaceTimed, smsed and Twittered, FaceBooked and WhatsApped. There is little that can keep two people apart from each other for long.”
“He, the God, the Maker, took various celestial shapes and sizes and stories of belief among us and still does, but would there be in time, when perhaps He would be replaced, by what he created to challenge the creator,” he added.
