GOVINDA aa le re, aa la, jara matki sambhal Brij bala re. That is a popular ditty heard in every nook and corner of Maharashtra during the annual two-week-long Ganesha festival.
But faraway in the national capital when they hum the first few words of that folk song, they aren’t referring to the elephant-headed Hindu deity whose favourite vehicle for commuting from place to place in Hindu mythology was a lowly rodent.
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