March 20 - Holi in India

Posted on March 20, 2019


For a while there, I didn't know too many people who had even heard of India's "festival of colors," Holi...

...But now it seems as if everyone wants in on the fun!


Holi is the Hindu spring festival. It is celebrated in India and Nepal, mostly - but, like I said, it's begun to become known and then celebrated and then popular elsewhere in Asia and the world...

 Here are some of the many meanings of Holi: welcoming spring... the ending of winter... the victory of good over evil... festival of love... thanksgiving for a good harvest... 

 And this is why it is called the festival of colors:
People smear and daub and sprinkle and throw and spray colors on one another. There are colored powders plus water balloons and water guns.











 This can happen in the street, in parks, outside temples and houses and other buildings.

Actually, Holi is a two-part holiday: one evening / night celebration, and then the next day, the daytime celebration. It's the daytime one everyone is crazy about, with all its colors - and this year it is held on March 21 (tomorrow) - but the nighttime celebration is fun, too. (This year it is March 20, tonight.) It features a bonfire!




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