Ganesh Chaturthi is being celebrated across the country today, September 2, with fervour and enthusiasm.
The festival also marks the start of 10-day long Ganeshotsav in Mumbai and Maharashtra, where devotees worship Lord Ganesha, whom they lovingly called Bappa, and bring home idols, offer modak and other offerings.
The festival is celebrated by people of all ages, amidst this a few school students from Chennai took the opportunity to spread the message of saving Amazon forest, to the world.
Around 2,000 students from Everwin Vidhyashram School came together to form an image of Lord Ganesha, on an area of approximately 18,000 square feet and decorated it with 5,500 light lamps.
A heart-touching message was written by the students along with the gigantic image that read, "Oh, Lord, Our Lungs Are Burning. Save Amazon, Save Earth". The pupils also urged the world leaders to come together in putting off the Amazon fire to save mother Earth.
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