Celebrating Vinayagar Chadurthy

As per our Hindu belief, today is the birth day of the First Deity Vinay/Ganapathy. Typically we make special sweets called kolukottai, modagam, they taste like Malaysian cueys etc., This flower is used for the special prayers:


In my community, the newly weds celebrate this festival at the girls house! Usually, the girls parents buy gifts for all celebrations, except this one! Yea, this is the occassion, where the guy is supposed to present gifts to the inlaws and observe religious rites at the girl's house.