* holi? holi holi!
Posted on March 5th, 2007 by Alex. Filed under India.
Holi is a very colorful festival. This year it was celebrated on 4th of March. A few friends and I went to celebrate Holi near Gymkhana (the sports hall of IISc). Basically it consists of throwing colored powder or water on each other. But it makes a lot of fun. If all color was over, we started to tear shirts and pants apart. And after that water and mud is used to color the others.
A clay jug was filled up with colored water and fixed high above the ground. Groups from several departments competed to break the jug in the shortest time. Basically a human pyramid had to be built so that the guy on top could smash it with a stick.
Some of the colors takes several days and plenty of bathing sessions to get removed from the skin. I still have a colored eyes and ears (the worst and most painful parts to shrub under the shower, especially with soap). But I am looking forward to celebrate it again next year.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Wow !!!
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March 8th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
what is it good for ???
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March 9th, 2007 at 5:26 am
I think, it is to show the basic instincts of the human kind. But the real reason is to have a lot of fun and to get to know a lot of people.
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March 12th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
i have to say i already knew that festival from some strange game on my royal mobile.
but it looks like a lot of fun.
therefore i had to forbid it by a law- here in schland!
(the mob has to learn that only the schlandkanzler should have fun like this).
greetings,
SK
ps: with this comment on your blog you may feel yourself ‘touched’ by the king now.
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