Political parties eyeing votes sponsor festivals

Behind the compelling visuals of human pyramids on Janmashtami come the dangers of injury. And even worse, because every year the dahi-handi gets raised higher and higher so does the prize money to break it. The stakes are being raised literally by politicians who have become the chief patrons of Janmashtami. Earlier if safety mattered less, it matters even less now, because until recently the street spectacle belonged to the Shiv Sena.