Maharashtra celebrates the birthday of the elephant-headed God with fervour and grandeur. Amid the pomp and show, we walked around the ‘manache pandals’ in Pune, drove to the Ganapatipule temple on the konkan coast and savoured puranpolis in the quaint village of Pawas in Ratnagiri Here, I was, standing in front of the 291-year-old Shaniwar Wada, the impenetrable residence of the Peshwas, glorified in the …