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In 1893, at the quiet Keshavji Naik Chawl, at Lokmanya Tilak's insistence -- as an act of defiance against the British -- one of Bombay's first sarvajanik Ganeshotsavs was celebrated. A few other chawls, a furlong or two away -- like Kamat Chawl and Shantiram Chawl -- glowed with the lights and happy sounds of celebrations that year.






A community celebration of the birth of Lord Ganesha