Every aspect of Maharashtra — land, life, faith and festival
११ दालने · eleven halls
Eleven illustrated maps of Maharashtra. Open a hall to zoom into every corner, hear it read aloud, and answer its question.
२D · ३D · ४D · ७D
Walk the halls four ways. 3D, 4D and 7D run in your browser with no plug-ins, and each offers red-cyan glasses mode and a VR split screen for a phone headset.
गणपती बाप्पा मोरया
A short film of all ten days — Aagman, the 1½-day farewell, Gauri Aagman and Gauri Pujan, the 5-day and 7-day visarjans, the mandals, and Anant Chaturdashi in Pune, Mumbai, the Konkan, the river ghats and the eco tanks.
In-page player modes: 2D, 3D depth (move the mouse or tilt the phone), red-cyan glasses and VR split.
| When | Who keeps Bappa this long | Where he goes |
|---|---|---|
| 1½ days | Many Konkan and Mumbai families; the first visarjan, on Rishi Panchami | Well, river, sea, home tank or bucket |
| 3 days | Some families by custom or vow | Nearby river or artificial tank |
| 5 days (Gauri–Ganpati) | Homes that welcome the Gauris; Bappa leaves with his mother | River ghat, lake, sea; Gauris immersed alongside |
| 7 days | Families and smaller mandals | Processions with dhol-tasha and lezim |
| 10 days · Anant Chaturdashi | Sarvajanik mandals and many homes | Pune's Manache Ganpati down Laxmi Road; Mumbai to Girgaon Chowpatty and Juhu; Konkan boats; Godavari, Krishna and Panchganga ghats; eco tanks everywhere |
Samarth Ramdas, 17th century. Press play and the lines light up; the voice reads them in Marathi.
घारापुरीची सफर · a voyage to Elephanta
Stand on the deck of the ferry. At dawn the Gateway of India towers over Apollo Bunder; you look back as it falls away behind the wake, turn to the bow, and cross the harbour with the gulls until Gharapuri rises from the sea. Then down the jetty, up the steps and between the pillars, until the great Sadashiva comes out of the dark. A vertical film on a calm score — play it in 2D, 3D depth, red-cyan or VR.
Pulled live from Wikimedia Commons (CC0, public domain, CC BY, CC BY-SA only), with each photographer credited.
नृत्य · dance of Prakriti
Eight folk forms of Maharashtra on one stage, each with its own rhythm played live by your browser. Switch between Warli line-art and colour.
Each dance is laid out like a choreography sheet: the section and move name, a live 8-count, and a top-down formation map, with every move landing on the beat.
पोवाडा · on “Jai Maharashtra” (136 BPM)
Mujra → Daf-taal → Katha (“जी जी रं जी”) → Ladhai → Vijay → Jai Maharashtra.
लावणी · on “Vasudeva Kutumbam — The Symphony of One Earth” (141 BPM)
Mukhda → Swagat (“आले रे आले, पाहुणे आले!”) → Ghungroo & thumka → Dholki-baaj tode → Adakari → Salaam (वसुधैव कुटुंबकम्). Uses 5:06–6:06 of the song.
♪ Music: “Vasudeva Kutumbam — The Symphony of One Earth” (5:06–6:06), timed beat for beat.
प्रकृती नृत्य · for children
Birds, animals, trees and even the forts dance to “Jai Maharashtra” through the year. In summer the sun wears sunglasses and the parakeets, hornbills, kingfishers, rollers, orioles, hoopoes and sunbirds dance under the mango trees. In the rains the peacocks open their fans, the elephant sprays and the frogs jump. In winter the tiger, deer and monkeys dance in woolly caps while the flamingos arrive. In the finale Raigad, Shivneri and Sindhudurg join in. Mangoes, oranges, grapes, carrots, flowers and modaks rain down, and every dancer shows its name in Marathi and English.
अक्षरकला
Words of Maharashtra written stroke by stroke. Type any word or your name, in any script, and watch it drawn in brush, Modak, Kalam or temple-gold.
खेळ · play and learn
Ten games built from the halls, the forts, the festival and the forests. Scores are kept on this device only.
open-licensed photographs
Sixteen subjects, each fetched live from Wikimedia Commons. Only CC0, public-domain, CC BY and CC BY-SA files are shown, following the museum's licensing rule; every card names the creator and licence and links to the file page.
PASSIONIT Entertainment
Films from the Mahaprakriti brief. They play from YouTube when you are online.
PASSIONIT · PRUTL · KALKI · AIDHARMA
Maharashtra as one living system — mountains, rivers, species, languages, settlements and memory — read through the four forces.
Materialism itself is not the enemy. A dam, a road or a factory can serve Positive or Negative Materialism depending on its design, governance and consequences. Kalki is the truth sword; AIDHARMA is the discipline behind its use.
SDG numbers are proposed priority mappings from the brief, not measured district performance.
Per the People's Linguistic Survey of India; the SDML survey (2017–2023) mapped 12 broad Marathi dialect regions across 277 villages in 34 districts.
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