After Valentine's Day, here comes the festival of colors, Holi, celebrated all over India during the spring season. All over the world there are festivals that excite people to forget all resentments and join into the enjoyment of togetherness.
La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in a region of Spain. People throw tomatoes and bathe in tomato pulp.
In Thailand there is a water throwing fun loving festival known as Rod Nahm Dum Hua. Here young people throw water at elders to show respect.
Holi is a festival of colors. This festival is being celebrated from ages since Lord Krishna played with Radha and Gopi as a symbol of love, devotion and togetherness. Then, people played with colors made from petals of different flowers and leaves grinded and mixed with lot of water to be showered at each other. Here mud is sometimes used as a prank and fun among friends.
Young people touch elder’s feet with color and pay respect to them. Those of same age, apply colors on their face and forehead sharing sweets and hug each other. Children enjoy this as a fun-filled day to play pranks with their friends throwing color filled balloons and sprinkling color at others. Even God is worshipped with color and sweets.
The best part of this festival is that we come together giving due respect to every religion, and community with shades of color. Family, friends, neighbor, relatives, colleagues, boss, young, old… everybody shares the fun under the sky.
Holi Hai!!!
