Today, I attended the Hindi festival of Holi. I have had only heard of this festival by word of mouth and from certain television programmes. As a friend was attending, I decided to go as well.
It is the 20 March today and tomorrow it is the 21st, the significance with this is that it is the Spring Equinox and is the first day of Spring. It is also a bright Full Moon. Holi is celebrated at the last full moon of winter and brings in the Spring portion of the year. It is a feat for all this coincide at the Equiniox so it is bringing cultures together at such an important time of the year i.e. Easter. It is also known as the ritual of love.
well with all the blurb over I'll continue..When we eventually found the place in Platt Fields, the walkways and the people where sprinkled with multi-coloured powders.. They danced and danced with glee and wafted, placed and smeared each other with these powders which a stall vendor was selling. Me and my friends became enticed within the celebrations and eventually lost our British inhibitions and joined in.
A few of the acts halted the proceeding somewhat and the dancing and fun died down until the music began again and fun was had in earnest. After a few more layers were added by the hinhi people to my face, everybody else became even more technicolor. I saw certain people became even more colourful and some evolved within the colour spectrum from green, violet, yellow, red and eventually magenta. I need to look up the relevances of these colours..red seems to signify passion!!
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