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Mumbai, Sep 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Veteran superstar Jeetendra on Tuesday visited Pune for Ganpati darshan and spoke about his deep-rooted connection with Maharashtra. He recalled his childhood memories of celebrating the festival and his struggling days before becoming an actor. Speaking to IANS at the venue, Jeetendra said he believes that Bappa calls him to visit and that he could not miss the darshan despite not keeping well. “See, number one, Bappa calls me, I don't come, that's number one. And second thing is, his love, Nimbalkarji's (organiser) love, affection, he remembers me, he calls me, he calls me with a lot of love.

Mumbai, Sep 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Television superstar Ankita Lokhande was seen celebrating the Gauri-Ganpati festival with family and friends and also Ekta Kapoor who is an extremely close friend and mentor of Ankita. In a video on social media, she explained the significance of Gauri Sthapna and the traditional celebrations associated with the festival. Ankita was seen talking about the significance of Gauri Maa's arrival and how the tradition is observed in Maharashtrian households. Explaining the tradition, Ankita said that Gauri Maa comes to her maika (maternal home) during the festival. She explained that after spending time at her maika, Gauri Maa leaves along with her son, Lord Ganesha, and this departure is marked through the Gauri-Ganpati Visarjan.

Mumbai, Sep 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actor Arjun Bijlani has opened up about welcoming Ganpati Bappa home with his family. Talking to IANS, he shared why the festival holds a special place in his heart. The ‘Naagin’ actor said the tradition of coming together for aarti and celebrating the festival with loved ones makes the occasion particularly meaningful for him. Arjun shared, “Ganesh Chaturthi has always been very special to me. Being a Maharashtrian, Bappa has been a part of my life since childhood, but living in Mumbai makes you experience the festival on a completely different level.

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Mumbai, August 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actress Apurva Gore, best known for playing Isha Deshmukh in the Marathi television show “Aai Kuthe Kaay Karte”, celebrated her first “Mangala Gaur” after marriage on August 18. The actress shared glimpses of the traditional festivities on her social media account. Apurva looked radiant in a traditional green silk ‘nauvari’ saree with a gold zari border and paired it with a matching blouse. She accessorised the look with traditional Maharashtrian jewellery, including layered necklaces, earrings, green bangles and a nath. She also sported a gajra in her neatly tied bun and completed her traditional Maharashtrian look with mehendi applied to her palms.

_This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, CSS Art._ ## Inspiration I'm Maharashtrian, and in our homes food never really arrives one dish at a time, it arrives as a थाळी. A steel plate, rice in the center, a ring of vaatis around it holding varan, bhaji, koshimbir, amti, a curl of lonche on the side, and always something to drink alongside — a glass of taak or lassi. That's what "comfort food" has always meant to me. Not one hero ingredient on a plate, but the whole spread landing in front of you at once, still steaming. So when this challenge said "comfort food," I didn't want to draw one bowl of something. I wanted to draw the _entire thali_ — the way it actually lands on the table at home — and build it purely out of CSS. ## Demo Hover over any dish for a quick description of what's in it, and try dragging one item onto another — they'll swap places on the plate. ## Journey Every piece of this — the brushed-gold steel plate, the katoris, the rice mound, the naan on its banana leaf, the lassi tumbler — is built from gradients, box-shadows, and clip-paths. No images anywhere. A few techniques I leaned on a lot: * **Layered`conic-gradient` + `radial-gradient`** for the brushed metal look of the plate and steel bowls * **Stacked`box-shadow` values** as a cheap way to scatter garnish — cilantro flecks, chili flakes, pistachio bits — without extra markup * **`clip-path`** for the tapered lassi tumbler and its ridged, fluted sides * Irregular `border-radius` values (different on every corner) so the rice mound and naan feel hand-shaped instead of like perfect circles The one feature that pushed past "pure CSS" was letting people **drag a dish and drop it on another to swap their places** , with a smooth spring-like transition. The contest rules allow a light sprinkle of JS for CSS Art as long as the visuals stay CSS-driven, so I used Pointer Events just to track drag position and swap two items' coordinates — nothing about how the dishes actually _look_ comes from JS. The best bug of the whole build: after wiring up hover tooltips and drag, _nothing_ responded — no hover cards, no dragging. Turned out a decorative etched-rim pattern on the plate, built as a `::after` pseudo-element and masked down to a thin ring, was still sitting on top of everything in paint order. CSS `mask` makes pixels transparent, but it doesn't stop an element from intercepting clicks — so an "invisible" ring was quietly blocking every dish underneath it. One `pointer-events: none` later, everything came alive. This one felt personal to build. Thanks for putting this challenge together! 🍛

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