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| People Enjoy Holi with Colors |
Holi is the festival of colours, celebrated
every year in India, in
March. It’s the unique carnival of high morale and a good way to welcome the
new season with the richness of various colours. At the time of the festival,
this part of the earth glorifies with the shine and brightness of colourful
hues, just like a kaleidoscope. As the weather discards the winter and began to
reap the seed of sunny summer, people also commence new promises and love, and
celebrate it with the most colourful festival, Holi.
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| People Spreading Colors To Each Others |
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| Holi Dance with Colors And Joy |
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| Hindu Mythology Holi Play With Flowers |
Although, Holi is a festival of Hindus, but
nowadays it is celebrated all over the country which proves the fact of “Unity
in Diversity”. The entire nation irrespective of caste, religion, race and
culture take part in the celebration. However, the colour of the festival on
the land of Shri Krishna is altogether different.
That particular area is known as ‘Braj Bhoomi’ and has a very special place in
Hindu Mythology as the Lord Krishna has spent his childhood there. The areas
which are considered as Braj Bhoomi are Nandgaon, Phalen, Vrindavan, Mathura, Gokul and
Barsana. Holi is celebrated for about three weeks at Braj Bhoomi. Lord Krishna
was brought up in Nandgaon, whereas his beloved Radha was from Barsana. People
celebrate their love in high spirits today as well.
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| People Enjoying with Dry Gulal At Braj Bhoomi |
People sprinkle coloured
water as well as the dry Gulal on each other. However, there is a little
difference in the celebration at Braj Bhoomi. In Phalen, the ceremony starts by
igniting a bone fir under full moon in honour of the victory of good for bad.
People enact the famous story of Prahlad and Holika, and the most surprising
fact is that the local pastor walks through that lighted fire.
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| Lathmar Holi In Barsana |
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| Barsana Ladies Playing Lathmar holi |
In Barsana, there is a different way to
celebrate the festival. Here, the famous term used for the festival is “Latthmaar
Holi”, which literally means beating with the sticks. All men from Nandgaon try
to mark their victory over the temple
of Radha in Barsana
whereas all women from Barsana try to defeat them by charging them with long
bamboo sticks. As men cannot hit back the women, so they have to cover
themselves with a good padding so that they do not get hurt. They can only stop
the women by sprinkling the coloured water on them. The funny fact is that men
disguise themselves as women, so that they can trap the ladies and dance in
their style as well. It is believed that Lord Krishna used to disguise himself
and dance like women. The same scene is repeated next day but now the men of
Barsana try to win over the women of
Nandgaon for the temple
of Shriji. Different Holi
songs, based upon the dialogues of Radha-Krishna is sung by men and women both,
during this celebration.
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| Traditional Radha Krishna Holy Play in Vrindavan |
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| People Celebrating Holi In Braj With Folk Songs And Colors |
This world-famous celebration attracts the
tourists from all over the globe. Devotional songs, bhang, gulal, love and
lathis are the distinct features of the famous Braj Holi. The people drinking
bhang, battling on the ground with different colours, the sound and beats of
drums, fervent songs, fountains of coloured water and latthi charging women,
all off a sudden, this gives a new meaning to Holi. This is only possible at
the land of Lord Krishna.
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