Results: Holi Festival

Holi, widely known as the Hindu festival of colors, is a joyful annual celebration at the advent of spring with cultural and religious significance. Typically observed in March in India, Nepal, other South Asian countries and across the diaspora, the festival celebrates love and signifies a time of rebirth and rejuvenation — a time to embrace the positive and let go of negative energy. This year it starts today , Monday March 25. Have you heard of Holi before?

For one of Holi's most well-known traditions, celebrants usually clad in all white, come out to the street and throw colored powders at each other, leaving behind a kaleidoscope of pigments and joy. Festivities with music, dancing and food ensue. Would you like to celebrate this festival?

It is said that there are over a thousand festivals in India throughout the year. Every festival in India is welcomed with big celebrations and sometimes a unison of cultures. Indian festivals can be generally divided into five categories: Festivals celebrating the triumph of good over evil, such as Diwali and Holi, Birthdays or anniversaries of gods and great people, seasonal festivals that mark new beginnings and the harvest seasons, celebrating the relationship between couples or between siblings and national days that are celebrated with great patriotic fervor. Do you wish the U.S. and Canada had more festivals?