Green Ganesha

THE WORLD’S FIRST GANESH IDOL THAT GROWS INTO A TREE This Ganesh festival do your bit to save the environment by bringing home an idol of Tree Ganesha. Made of red soil, organic fertilizer, natural colour and seeds, this unique idol is designed to grow in to a tree after immersion. Go ahead. Book your idol and take the first step towards a greener future. Born and brought up in the chawls of Lower Parel, Dattadri Kothur alias Dattu fell in love with Lord Ganesha the very first time he saw a Ganesh idol. An art director by profession and an artist and sculptor by passion, he has come a long way in discovering his love for making Ganesha idols. He learnt this divine art by helping the artists at a studio in his backyard and then there was no looking back. He believes that Ganesh festival is the celebration of nature and strongly supports the cause of environment friendly celebrations.  He has been successfully using the festival as a platform to raise awarenes...

Hyderabad:  The Hyderabad Metropolitan Developmental Authority (HMDA) has decided to procure 40,000 clay Ganesh idols of eight inches size to be sold at discounted prices in eight locations within the city. The locations include the HMDA head office at Tarnaka, Lumbini Park, NTR Garden, BPP office, Saroornagar Priyadarshini Park, Narayanaguda Melkote Park, Rajiv Gandhi Vanasthalipuram Park and Swarnajayanthi Commercial Complex at Ameerpet. The clay idols that are being procured would be as per a specified model from the artisans, agencies who have experience in manufacturing the idols in large numbers and are willing to supply. Officials said that the HMDA had taken up various activities for protection of the lakes and water bodies in and around Hyderabad and more particularly Hussain Sagar Lake. According to government instructions, HMDA distributes eco-friendly Ganesh idols every year to the public at discounted prices through the Resident Welfare Asso...

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 Nature-friendly clay Ganesha Idols to be distributed by the state government. Hyderabad:  As part of eco-friendly initiatives planned by the state government, over a lakh of clay Ganesh idols will be distributed before the upcoming Ganesh Chaturti. This was announced by Minister K.T. Rama Rao on his Twitter handle.  But almost instantly, the statement was rebuked by Sunita Pandey, a rese-archer from the city, who re-tweeted, “Ok. Nice plot. Clay fills up lake gradually. Once lake dies, seemingly natural death. Prime land all across Hyderabad available for land grabbing (sic).” This caught the attention of the tech-savvy minister, who makes it a point to check tweets that flood his handle every hour. He retorted by saying, “By far, this has to be the most imaginative and cynical tweet I have ever seen. Madam, you should start writing fiction. Good luck to you.” This twitter interaction provoked several reactions from netizens, with some of them backing the gov...