Bring the spirit of Pune City into your home with this illustration of PUNE City's Ganesh Festival that captures city's characteristics in an unique way.

Pune has the most colourful celebration of the Ganesh Festival in India. Thousands of mandals create pandals with various colourful portrayals of traditional and contemporary events and various forms of Ganesh Idols. The festival lasts for 10 days and the whole city participates enthusiastically visiting many of these pandals to see the decorations. The idols are immersed at the end of the festival on Anantachaturdashi day. The public celebration of the festival was instituted by Lokmanya Tilak as a way to marshal Pune’s citizens into the Freedom Movement.

Features: 

  • Perfect to be used as decorative fridge magnets.
  • Each fridge magnet comes with the illustration printed onto stainless steel plate with epoxy coating (Each of 3 inch Dia).
  • It comes with a strong backside magnet that is easy to move, but holds strong. 
  • It is a great travel souvenir and nice collection, to bring the spirit of Pune City into your home.

Have fun while you reflect and reminisce on your favorite memories of your beloved city. This Pune souvenir is a perfect decor for homes and offices and is a number one gift choice for Indian souvenirs and travel mementos!

ABOUT PUNE

PUNE - a city in Maharashtra, India nestled on the Deccan Plateau on top of the Sahyadri Range of the Western Ghats is known by many monikers - Cultural City, Oxford of the East, Cradle of Military Leadership, Automobile & IT Hub! It became an important part of the struggle against the Mughals with Chattarapati Shivaji’s leadership. Later under Peshwa Rule the Maratha Empire spread far and wide over the Indian Subcontinent.

The Swarajya struggle against the British Empire was later led by Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Lokmanya Tilak and others making Pune an important part of the Freedom Struggle. Many Social Movements for Girl’s education, Widow Remarriage and Equality were led by Jyotiba & Savitribai Phule, Dhondu Keshav Karve and Agarkar. Pune continues to be a center of many political and social movements to this day with its many civic conscious citizens and NGOs.

From the 1960s Pune and its twin township of Pimpri-Chinchwad became an important Industrial Center in India, especially around the Automobile Industry. It continues to be an Auto Hub with many of the Indian and international Auto Majors having their presence. Since the 1990s, Pune also emerged as an important center for the Information Technology industry.

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