Holi

Happy Holi to all of you and your loved family! Holi is one of the major festivals of the Hindu religion. Currently, it is celebrated in South Asian countries, especially in India and Nepal. The Color of Joy! Life is made up of many colors, hence let us learn the same from this colorful festival.

Holi Festival

The colorful festival, Holi is celebrated on the last full moon day of the lunar month of (Phalguna). This Hindu festival is generally coming around the end of March. For instance, Holi in 2022 is “Friday, 18 March” (The festival date of Holi may vary from year to year).

The festival is celebrating for two days. The 1st day is “Holika Dahan” and the 2nd day, Rang Panchami marks the closing day of the Holi festival.

Most Hindu People enjoy different varieties of colors on Holi. They apply colors to each other, sing, and dance together. They worship Lord Krishna and put colors on his idol.

Happy Holi (Holika Festival) brief details

• Holi is about celebrating happiness with friends and family. People forget their troubles and indulge in this festival to celebrate brotherhood. In other words, we forget our enmities and get into the festival spirit. Holi is calling the festival of colours. Because people play with colours and apply them to each other’s faces. This is colours are the real essence of the festival. Hence, Holi is a festival of colours.
• This auspicious festival is celebrating during the spring season with great joy and fervour.
• People wear white coloured clothes on the day of Holi.
• They play with bright organic colours like red, green, yellow, orange, magenta, purple, etc.
• Various kinds of sweets such as Gujiyas and Malpuas are sweetening the mouths to mark the occasion of Holi.
• Children love playing with colours using pichkaris, buckets and balloons, filled with coloured water.
• Holi celebrations begin with the Holika Dahan ritual that is celebrating to honour the burning of Holika, the evil demoness and protection of Prahlad by Lord Vishnu from that fire.
• People collect wood and burn a bonfire and celebrate by singing songs around it.
• Holi is a festival which reminds us of the victory of good over evil.

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