For years, India has been home to the joyful festivities of Ganesh Chaturthi, also known as Vinayak Chaturthi, that celebrate the birth of Lord Ganesh, affectionately called Ganpati Bappa. It is said that the Rishi Vyas invoked Lord Ganesha on earth for the first time before writing the Mahabharata. Before Lord Ganesha commenced as the Mahabharat’s scribe, the Lord was said to have been worshipped for ten days so that the epic would be written without any break. It is believed that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj revived Ganeshotsav during the Mughal era as a means of cultural preservation. Later, in 1893,…