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September 2, 2010 | Pune girls beat dhols ahead of Ganesh Chaturthi festival |
Pune: Enthusiastic young girls have joined boys in practicing
the beating of Dhols in Pune, ahead of the popular Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
The girls said they were upbeat about outsmarting their male counterparts during
the procession of Ganesha idols. "We are playing for God, and when people watch
us playing on roads, and when we do this unique act, it makes me happy. The number
of girls are more, and I feel very happy," said Anagha, a young female Dhol player.
The weight of a Dhol is around six to seven kilograms, and it is tied around the
waist. With a few days left for the festival, the girls are practicing daily for
three hours to improve their stamina. "Daily we come here at five in the evening
and return home at nine in the night. We practice for two to three hours because
during Ganesha Chaturthi we have to play the whole day, for which we need to develop
stamina," said Gayatri, Dhol player. The President of the Shivamudra Dhol (drum)
Group, Vinayak Deshpande, said he did not find any difference between the spirit
of the boys and the girls when beating drums. "The girls practice with boys and
their stamina is same as that of the boys," said Deshpande. This year, the festival
of Ganesh Chaturthi falls on September 11. This festival is celebrated in the
southern states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, as well as western
Gujarat and Maharashtra , where hundreds of thousands of idols are moulded for
worship. |
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