Today is Ganpati Visarjan, and it’s beautiful to see devotees giving Bappa a grand farewell. If we welcome Bappa with such enthusiasm, the visarjan should be celebrated with the same spirit.
But this DJ competition in the name of visarjan is completely unnecessary and, in my view, downright wrong. This video is from my city, Anand, where the visarjan has turned into a DJ competition, with speakers blasting so loudly that it feels like people’s eardrums might start vibrating.
Use dhol, nagada and gulal. Celebrate with devotion, energy and tradition. But I strongly oppose turning visarjan into a loud DJ show just for the sake of showing off. Some people may not like me saying this, but if we genuinely respect Bappa, we should also know where to draw the line.