YOU MUST KNOW- Colorful Holi Festival in India
Festival holi held to celebrate the spring color. Each color of powder, ink, or paint has a different meaning. The red color symbolizes life, festivals and weddings. Yellow color for prosperity and trade. The green color commemorates nature, fertility, and happiness. While blue, Krishna's skin color, means peace, love, and heaven.
Photo: A student of Rabindra Bharati University, whose face was smeared with colorful powder, reacted as his colleagues sprinkled colored powder to his face during a Holi celebration inside a university campus in Kolkata, India, February 26, 2018.
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The highlight of the Holi festival is called Dhulheti, Dhulandi, or Dhulendi. On that day, people celebrate Holi by throwing colorful powder or splashing each other colored water. The fires that were lit on the night before Holi were called Holika Dahan (Holika death) or Chhoti Holi (Little Holi). The fire was lit to commemorate the passage of Prahlada when it wanted to be burned by Holika (Hiranyakasipu's sister). The Holika was burned and killed, but Prahlad, the devotee of Lord Vishnu, survived without injury. In Andhra Pradesh, Holika Dahan is called Kama Dahanam.
Photo: A widow whose body was bathed in colorful flour participated in the Holi celebration in Vrindavan town in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, February 27, 2018.
A student of Rabindra Bharati University reacted as his colleagues threw colored flour to his face during the Holi celebration inside the university campus in Kolkata, India on February 27, 2018.
REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
Widows whose colorful bodies are dancing as they attend the Holi celebration in Vrindavan town in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, February 27, 2018.
Students from Rabindra Bharati University, with their faces smeared with colored powder, grab a selfie during the Holi celebration inside the university campus in Kolkata, India, February 26, 2018.
REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
Widows whose colorful bodies are dancing as they attend the Holi celebration in Vrindavan town in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, February 27, 2018.
REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
A Hindu takes part in a Holi religious festival in a temple in the village of Nandgaon, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India on February 25, 2018.
REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Hindus take part in the Holi religious festival in a temple in the village of Nandgaon, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India on February 25, 2018.
REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
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