this is our favorite holiday, we told gonesh about our deepest desires, decorated him, fed him sweetsl drown him. and so the giant goneshi go to the water, here they are loaded onto special rafts, so that ceremoniously drown away from the shore. we try to load it onto a boat and send the figures are made of clay, everything dissolves in water and becomes part of the seascape, the ritual symbolizes the wheel of rebirth samsara, at the beginning of the festival gonesh appears on earth, he is extolled and revered, and then he leaves again, returning to nature. the history of the holiday goes back centuries, in colonial times , mass festivities in honor of gonesh were banned due to the british fear of the spread of ideas of indian independence. today, the goneshi festival is a kind of bridge between such different layers of indian society. evgeny davidov and vladislav dadonov, news from india. and that concludes our broadcast, with you was oksana kuvaeva, all news is always available on the media platform. ru see you, hello, curl, hello, glutton, curl, and where are you going, i 'm going