By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist
Rainy season is considered an inauspicious time. The sun is making its journey south; the days are becoming shorter and the nights colder; the earth is wet, worms and snakes are wriggling out, the walls are damp, and there is moss in every corner… it is Chaturmaas, the four months when sages don’t travel, stay indoors and tell stories of Gods. As rains start to wane, the earth covers in green, and brings forth her son, the one who will remove all obstacles as the seasons begin their march towards harvest time. That son is Ganesha, Gowri’s Ganesha, seated on her lap, corpulent, elephant-headed, cute and powerful.
