A man with a placard in Bhuleshwar market area in Mumbai, India, advertising rat and insect poison, which he sells to passers-by

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Sales of rat poison in the city drop to almost nil during Ganesh Chaturthi Festival, which celebrates elephant god Ganesh (also: Ganesha, Ganpati, Vinayak): In Hindu mythology, Ganesh’s ‚vehicle‘ (vahana) is a rat, and out of respect for its relationship to Ganesh, Hindus temporarily forgo poisoning the rodents.

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