<span style="color: #222222;">In Maharashtra, the widely popular Dahi Handi festival in Mumbai is a low key affair this time owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. While most of the big organizers of the festival which is held to mark Krishna Janmashtami, preferred to cancel the celebrations this year, the housing societies organized their own mini Dahi Handis with just two tiers.<br />''<br />''Others opted for day-long virtual celebrations in the form of Maha Aaratis, chanting of Mantras, Havans and religious discourses, showing them online on the temple website Facebook and YouTube channels. Many temple authorities appealed to people not to throng the temples, instead visit the temple website or facebook live for Darshan of Lord Krishna and the celebrations.<br />''<br />''The famous ISKCON temple and Radha Gopinath Temple at Girgaum Chowpatty in Mumbai are organizing Kathas and Kirtans to mark the festival.<br />''<br />''Hit hard by the Coronavirus pandemic, organizers of the festival in Mumbai had announced canceling celebrations in June itself. </span><br />