If you are from India, you must have heard many times about Holi, and probably have even played it. Holi is a festival that involves playing with colors and even water. It is a very famous festival in India. Holi is mainly a Hindu festival, but is also celebrated by some other communities in some parts of the world.
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Maybe it’s the feeling of renewal or the freedom that comes from the ritual casting off of heavy coats, but spring-induced delirium is a universal thing. The craziest celebration of all has to be the Hindu festival of Holi, a welcoming party for spring that begins on the last full moon of the lunar month Phalguna, typically falling in February or March.
Celebrated primarily in northern India and Nepal, the “Festival of Colours” is essentially a messy three-day street party-slash-water balloon fight. In cities and villages across the region, participants fill the streets and public squares armed with buckets, balloons and syringes filled with dyed water (some just skip the receptacles entirely and chuck whole fistfuls of coloured gulal powder) and basically just have at each other in a riotous spectacle of colour-flinging mayhem.
According to tradition, devotees of Vaishnavism—the dominant branch of Hinduism in northern India—will rub red dye on their temple’s Krishna icons and then apply it to their family and friends. The red is symbolic of Krishna’s significance as the god of passion. Over time, the ritual has expanded into the crazy mess we see today.
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Maybe it’s the feeling of renewal or the freedom that comes from the ritual casting off of heavy coats, but spring-induced delirium is a universal thing. The craziest celebration of all has to be the Hindu festival of Holi, a welcoming party for spring that begins on the last full moon of the lunar month Phalguna, typically falling in February or March.
Celebrated primarily in northern India and Nepal, the “Festival of Colours” is essentially a messy three-day street party-slash-water balloon fight. In cities and villages across the region, participants fill the streets and public squares armed with buckets, balloons and syringes filled with dyed water (some just skip the receptacles entirely and chuck whole fistfuls of coloured gulal powder) and basically just have at each other in a riotous spectacle of colour-flinging mayhem.
According to tradition, devotees of Vaishnavism—the dominant branch of Hinduism in northern India—will rub red dye on their temple’s Krishna icons and then apply it to their family and friends. The red is symbolic of Krishna’s significance as the god of passion. Over time, the ritual has expanded into the crazy mess we see today.
Also check,
Holi Quotes 2016
Holi Cards 2016
Holi Pics 2016
Holi Wallpapers 2016
Holi Songs 2016