Ganesh Chaturthi celebrates the birth of Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu deity revered as the remover of obstacles and the patron of beginnings, wisdom, and good fortune. Observed over ten days in the month of Bhadrapada (usually August or September), it is marked by the installation of Ganesha idols in homes and public pavilions, daily prayers and offerings of sweets such as modak, and devotional singing. The festival concludes with Visarjan, the joyful procession in which the idols are immersed in water, symbolizing Ganesha's return home and the cycle of creation and dissolution.