If you thought that prices of Ganesh idols were pinching your pocket, then prepare your budget to get pinched some more as the styrofoam temples (makhars) used to install Ganesha idols are no inexpensive affair either. Styrofoam is a petroleum product, and spiralling prices of the fuel have also pulled up makhar prices along with them.

A dear home: Makhars on display at a retail shop in Navi Mumbai