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Holi – The Festival of Colours of Love and New Beginnings

http://top10tale.com/category/lifestyle/ - Holi, with holi wishes is a traditional Hindu festival, celebrated right at the beginning of the Spring season. It is also considered to be a celebration of good over evil, celebrated with holika dahan and then fun and games with colours and water. Globally, holi is popular for the coloured powder variants that participants throw at each other during the festivities, which makes it the most colourful festival ever to have existed on this Earth.

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Holi – The Festival of Colours of Love and New Beginnings

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  1. Holi – The Festival of Colours of Love and New Beginnings Holi, with holi wishes is a traditional Hindu festival, celebrated right at the beginning of the Spring season. It is also considered to be a celebration of good over evil, celebrated with holika dahan and then fun and games with colours and water. Globally, holi is popular for the coloured powder variants that participants throw at each other during the festivities, which makes it the most colourful festival ever to have existed on this Earth. For More Information, visit: http://top10tale.com/category/festivals/ The origin of this festival is traced back to India, and although it is celebrated as a religious festival in India, many other countries in the world have adopted the colourful festival of holi, owing to the fun, frolic, entertainment, and bonding opportunities the festival brings with it. Holi – the origin story The entire festival of holi, with happy holi wishes is based on a number of legends of Hindu mythology. The main legend of the festival is based on holika dahan, which symbolises Lord Vishnu protecting his devotee Prahlada from the hands of Holika, Hiranyakashyap’s sister, when the latter tried to burn Prahlada in a funeral pyre by sitting inside it with him in her lap. To commemorate this legend, every year, on the evening before holi, a Holika bonfire is burnt by the members of the family.

  2. The coloured powder that is used, better known as gulal, is thrown by the participants on each other during the festivities, and this activity’s origin can be traced back to the mythological time of Lord Krishna, who coloured his love Radha’s face, to make her look like him, owing to his dark blue complexion. Today, holi, made special with holi quotes is celebrated by covering each other with the gulaal or perfumed powder to immortalise the love shared by Radha and Krishna. This colourful perfumed powder also signifies the onset of the Spring season, and all the natural colours it brings with it in the form of fruits, flowers and new leaves.

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