Monday, September 05, 2016

The Unique Ganesh, Lambodar


Lambodar ('heavy stomach'), without a stomach.

Dr. Krishnamurthy, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and before that, with the World Bank in Washington, D.C.; retired and living in Bangalore, had a unique (so I was told) Ganesh statue. One day in 1981, when I was staying in Bangalore at Taj West End, he came to my suite, bringing this statue to show me. Apart from educating me on its uniqueness, he wondered if I could make a pedestal for it in my factory. I found it difficult to design anything for it, but I came out with this solution, which satisfied him and his family.

As I post it here, I hope that those who view it would find it amusing, interesting, or, at the least, intriguing.

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