[Apollo]

Immersion is essential to the ritual. I can't imagine a Ganesh Chaturthi festival without it.

What needs to be stopped though, is the use of POP in making the idols. And the use of hazardous paints on them. Also, the ever-escalating heights of the statues that we see every year(get into Khetwadi, at this moment, and you'll see what I mean). And the mundane commercialization of the festival via the mandals - it's really sickening.