Ganesh Festival in Mumbai 2008

Dear Friends,
This is my 1st Blog so i'm starting it with the blessings from my Favourite God ( yeah. i'm choosy about my God too) Just couple of days back Ganesh Festival has finished. I'm not atheist. I do believe in god, but when i visited the Lalbaug cha Raja Ganapati ( Very Famous Ganesh idol in the Mumbai) i found almost 4000-5000 odd people gathered in the Lalbaug and Chinchpokali area for the glimpses of Ganesh idol. I heard everyday around 1 lac people visit the Ganesh. Total budget of the committee which handles this festival for 10 days is in crores. more information about it you can get from other websites too. but my point is very different over here.
I have enjoyed Ganesh festival in Mumbai, Pune since my childhood but these days number of people visiting Ganesha tells the Story of Increasing Tension and Compitition. In this Servival of the Fittest Race, Everyone wants to win and for that along with Hard work and smartness people are coming to God for the peace of mind.
But do they really get it in the crowd of 10k people is the question comes in my mind. these ganesh utsav committee people also keeps devotees waiting for 10-12 hrs for the glimpses of not more than 3mins. Dont you think they should make there pandols big enough so that hundreds of people can take the blessings form God at the same time. In Pune Dagadusheth Halwai Ganapati follows this kind of practice. there you can take the darshan even standing from half km away. Open Pandol is what we need and not the Designer Pandols.
Even this increasing Devotion and Technological Progress can ever go Hand in Hand.
In the clouds of Terror Blasts People still enjoys the festival, is it the win over Terror or just the Negligence that I'm survived and won't be able to enjoy this until next year so Lets party attitude.
When we are talking about undieing spirit of mumbai.. is it this really spirit which is there or just Money and other commitments are winning.
Political Leaders are also taking undue advantage of so called undieing spirit and not doing there work as they see nobody cares or media flashes, Life back to normal.
I'm going to talk about everything over here. I know my Take is not what matters today but some day it will. And i won't change my stand when i'll be their shoe.
Please you all also feel free to write your views and Things which you want to add or write.