Hello fellas, the festive season
starts with a rainbow in India, a colorful country to bring joys with colors. I
am talking about Holi: Indians celebrate this in the advent of spring season
and is related to many mythologies as well which symbolizes the victory of Good
over evil (one of the mainline facts of this festival)
March 17, not so far!! Monday it gonna
be a colorful event where people all over the nation will smear each other with
Gulal (powdered color) symbolizing a very old ritual having its Hindu
mythological groundwork. Let’s go deep in history, shall we
The Name Game: Holi
Starting with one of the most
interesting fact of Holi, unlike other festivals the name of this festival has
been derived from the name of an evil woman “Holika”. The woman hatched up with
her brother Hiranyakashyap to kill his own son a devotee if the Hindu deity
Vishnu named Prahlad (his own nephew) by burning him but gets herself burn to
ashes in the end; this is just the crux of the real story which involves a lot
of other magical stuffs.
To recreate the cremation of Holika and
enjoy the win of Prahlad, Indians set up bon fire evening/night before Holi
which is famous as “Holika Dahan” (Devoting Holika to fire).
Apart from this there are many other
facts of this festival, like it was referred as great cupid festival in 7th
century, another fact of holi is the use of color which is supposed to
represent the love between Hindu deity Krishna and his companion Radha (Famous
as Radha-Krishna, Krishna smeared color on Radha’s face as he was spiteful of
her fair complexion, making the color eternal to this festival), in West bengal
it is celebrated as Dolyatra.There are many other facts related to this
festival and historical importance, but in modern days the festival celebration
has reached new pinnacles.
Bhaang, an amazing refreshing desi drink made in milk with dry fruits and
flavors and not to mention marijuana extract is famous on holi, people gets
immersed in the celebration forgetting all the sorrow and sadness. Holi is
rather a very easy pocket celebration as anyone with gulal, water balloon,
water, even snow celebrates this festival.
Because of such huge crowd gathering popularity
of this festival, the day is declared as a national holiday. Holi is also considered as a mark of
positiveness and belief in almighty wih good always sidelining evil demons.
With the same belief we wish you a very happy holi-day.
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