First appeared in www.scroll.in on September 19, 2015. Last year, this column featured compositions from the Hindustani stream pertaining to Ganesh or Ganpati, the elephant-headed Hindu deity. The first Saarvajanik Ganeshotsav or public festivity held to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi that falls in the month of Bhaadrapada in the Hindu calendar, was organised in Poona in 1893.  Lokmanya Tilak introduced an educational angle to the festivities in 1894. The Saarvajanik Ganeshostav has had firm roots in Bombay since 1895 and has been