Every Year, the Holi festival brings a rainbow of chalk to the streets of India. The Holika bonfire is ignited the night before the Holi, bringing people gathered together for an evening of dance and song.
The following day, the bonfire gives way for a free-for-all carnival of color. Participates play, clasing each other with coloured water and powder.
The festival's intention is to bring together strangers, uniting the rich and poor, man and women, children and elders_people who might not mingle otherwise.
Holi Festival is celibrated at the approach of the vernal equinox, which is on the phalguni Pornima and typically at the end off February or beginning of March.
The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring and the end of winter, and an opportunity to meet others. People are brought together to play and laugh, forget and forgive, to repair ruptured relationships.
The Holi festival is knows for being the festival of colors, or the festival of love. As an ancient Hindu religious festival, Holi has also become popular with non Hindus in South Asia, as well as communities of the continent.
Holi has become a popular festival in Europe in the from of a music festival, featuring songs accompanied by an exuberant riot of color on Streets and buildings.
Holi was enables thought the unwavering devotion to the Hindu God of presernated, Lord Vishnu. When reincarnated as the lord Krishna, he was known for playing pranks on the village girls by drenching them in water and colors.
There are different forms of Holi Festival across India, the Lathmar Holi festival in Barsana involves man with shields being beaten with women and bamboo stick. During the celebration, the men attempt to fight the women off by sprinkling them with coloured chalks.
Jaipur's Holi Elephant Festival, features elaborately painted elephants, elephant popo, and tug of war.
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