Enormous piles of unsightly gypsum chunks, putrefying waste of flowers and offerings, and amorphous web of tangled steel rods were all that remained of the nine-day Ganesh festivities, covering banks of the Hussiansagar lake on Saturday.
Forty-eight hours after the designated immersion of the much venerated elephant god, more idols and tableaux kept arriving at the main immersion point of the city amid boisterous revelries.
Rag-pickers and urchins scoured through the garbage, looking for things that possessed scrap value. Some of them dived into the murky waters hoping for bigger spoils.
