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Khairatabad Ganesh is an idol of the Hindu god Ganesha (known as "Ganesh" in Hindi) that is installed during the annual festival of Ganesh Chaturthi at Khairatabad locality of Hyderabad, India. Constructed annually and known for its height and the laddu held in the figure's hand, the idol is worshipped during the 10-day festival where thousands of devotees visit every day. On the 11th day, the idol is immersed in the nearby Hussain Sagar lake. Inspired by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Singari Shankaraiah first established a 1 foot (0.30 m) Ganesh idol in 1954 at a temple in Khairatabad. The height of the constructed idol increased by one foot every year until 2014, where it reached 60 feet (18 m). The size was later reduced owing to the limitations of the route to Hussain Sagar lake and environmental concerns. The idol's peak height was 61 feet (19 m)[a] in 2019, thereby becoming the tallest idol of Ganesh in India that year.
Origins
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A 1 foot (0.30 m) high idol of the Hindu deity Ganesha was first established in 1954 at Khairatabad locality in Hyderabad to commemorate the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi. It was started by Singari Shankaraiah, Indian independence movement activist and former corporator, who was inspired by Bal Gangadhar Tilak's call in 1893 to celebrate the festival as a mark of unity.[1][2]
Devotees participate in the 10-day festival where thousands of people visit the Khairatabad Ganesh every day from various parts of the city, and other places. On the 11th day, the idol is immersed in the nearby Hussain Sagar lake.[4][5]
Chinnaswamy Rajendran, who previously worked in film set designing in South Indian cinema, has been the chief architect and supervising the design of the idol since 1978. In 1978, the organizers had commissioned a backup idol to be built at Dhoolpet, a neighbourhood in Hyderabad, had Chinnaswamy unable to deliver. The idol has been placed outside the temple since 1978.[2][6]
Height
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The height of the idol constructed increased one foot every year since 1954 until 2014 where it reached 60 feet (18 m).[7] The organizing committee then decided to reduce the height gradually, following the High Court's order to cap the height at 20 feet (6.1 m).[8] In 2019, the height was increased to 61 feet (19 m)[a] due to requests from the devotees.[9]
Laddu
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The Khairatabad Ganesh is also known for its laddu, offered as prasadam.[3][10] Until 2009, the Khiaratabad Ganesh Utsav committee used to place a 50 kg laddu at the pandal.[10] Starting from 2010 until 2015, the laddu was offered by PVVS Mallikarjun Rao a.k.a. Malli Babu, who is a sweet maker from Tapeswaram, a village located in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. It was made in Tapeswaram and transported to the idol location at Khairatabad, and came to be known as Tapeswaram laddu.[b][3][11] Rao donated a laddu weighing 500 kg in 2010, which gradually increased to 6000 kg in 2015.[3] This is the heaviest laddu offered in the idol's history.[12]
In 2016, the Utsav committee asked Rao to reduce the laddu weight to 600 kg, citing the distribution of large laddu to devotees as a problem.[12] Later, Rao announced that he would not be donating laddu any further to Khairatabad, alleging that the committee had breached their contract by placing the laddu at the feet of Ganesha instead of placing it in hands as agreed before. The same year, Rao entered the Guinness World Records by creating a laddu weighing 29,465 kg which was presented to a Ganesh idol at Visakhapatnam.[13]
Since 2016, the laddu is presented by J. Tanay Rana and his family who run an air-cooler business in Hyderabad. The presented laddu, which weighed 62 kg in 2016, reached 1,100 kg in 2021.[14]
Once the puja ceremony is completed, the laddu is distributed to the devotees,[15] ranging between 2,000 and 3,000 every year. In 2015, overcrowding led to an almost stampede situation. The police were unable to control the crowd due to broken barricades and had to stop the distribution in the middle
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