Updated On: 26 August, 2025 09:05 AM IST | Mumbai | Team mid-day
The days before the Ganesh festival, among Mumbai’s favourites, is a time of shivery anticipation, feverish activity and citizens heading out to their villages to celebrate with their families. mid-day catches the frenetic activity on the ground from across the city

Devotees, leaving for the Konkan for the Ganesh festival, wait to board a bus from Parel ST Depot. PIC/ATUL KAMBLE
A shopkeeper shows off some Bethlehem flowers that are used during the Ganesh puja. PIC/KIRTI SURVE PARADE
Flower vendors put out their best wares on display in Dadar West. PIC/RANE ASHISH
A vendor at a flower market shows off a durva mala. PIC/KIRTI SURVE PARADE