Ganesh Chaturthi is finally over, with an outburst of drumbeats, middle-aged dancing and a flurry of orange flags. A parade of trucks meandered their way through the city, old and new, to confluence at one point and proceed to Hussain Sagar, where they are tipped-slipped-slid into the stormy grey water with the help of cranes.

Now as boats chug across the water towards the beatific figure of the Buddha, there’s something poetic in thinking about the hundreds of rotund Ganapati statues lying at the bottom of the lake.

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