DAHI HANDI PATHAKS
Around 3,000 Dahi Handi organizers in the city, out of which 400 or so organized by politicians at major locations like Dadar, Thane, Bandra, Navi Mumbai .There’s an entire network of local retailers and major corporaters which underwrites the organizers; riding on the back of influential political leaders, they are assured of thousands of footfalls at the venue and several times more eye-balls as regional television channels extend live coverage .This commercial dahi handi, unlike its purely religious avatar, is a noisy, raucous and reckless sport. These cash prizes are given away to the winners depending upon how many tiers are displayed, and how professionally it is carried out. Mumbai has around 1,500 to 2,000 Govinda pathaks of which only three to four pathaks can form a nine-tier human pyramid, 20 to 25 pathaks can form an eight-tier human pyramid. Thus trying to understand these systems we interviewed some of such mandals across the city. And created a questionare with the responses we got in order to find out the commonalities in networking pattern and their functioning.
VIRAR
DAHISAR
GOREGAON
BANDRA
MAHIM
DADAR
THANE
NAVI MUMBAI
BORIVALI
KANDIVALI
MALAD
JOGESHWARI
The mandal is one of the biggest group of 550 people who are scattered throught the city and come together for just this event. The mandal consists of all male member who are mutually connected to each other thus leading to forming a lot of friendships . Also except for the coach there is treasure, secretary and other administrative people who handle the functioning of the mandal . Along with its members taking care of different responsibilities for better functioning.
JAI JWALA GOVINDA PATHAK
The mandal is a group of 110 people who are scattered throught Malad, Kandivali, Goregaon and a few towards Virar. The mandal consists of all male member who are mutually connected to each other thus leading to forming a lot of friendships . Also except for the coach there is treasure, secretary and few other administrative people who handle the functioning of the mandal . Along with its members taking care of different responsibilities for better functioning.
BHUMI ARCADE DAHI KALA GANESH UTSAV MANDAL
The mandal is a small group of 80 people who live together in a building. And each house has a male member who participates in the mandal for the activity. Also except for the coach there are no other member for handling the functioning of the mandal . its usually all the members taking care of different responsibilities.
AIROLI GOVINDA PATHAK
The mandal is a group of 300 people who are scattered throught Airoli , Thane , Navi mumbai . The mandal consists of all male member who are mutually connected to each other thus leading to forming a lot of friendships . Also except for the coach there is a president who handles the functioning of the mandal . Along with its members taking care of different responsibilities for better functioning.