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First of all, HAPPY HOLI . I am sorry about writing nontechnical topic on this blog, and I wrote this topic because this is the festival I like the most among all INDIAN festivals. And I will not bore you with this topic . and first of all this topic is for all our friends outside India or people in India who doesn’t play Holi. You all will be thinking that this guy is trying to make us understand what holi is, but I am sorry to disappoint you’ll again because I won’t tell you’ll what is HOLI and why is it celebrated..Because that data you can easily get it on net by taking our friends help . So bear with me for this topic where I share with you all things we (by specifying we I meant along with my friends) used to do while playing holi.
When we were of around 9 year Holi meant lot of fun. We used to go around splashing water on everyone in our way while returning from school, after returning from school we used to directly head to our house to get our water gun, and after getting water gun we used to spray water on every one coming in our sight (Holi and diwali are the only festival in Indian calendar where you can literally grab a gun and run around everyone but obviously I am talking about toy gun) and believe me it was fun then. Then gradually we age with time and holi meant something different for us. Now being of around 16years holi had some other meaning. Grabbing a gun was thing of past and doing so meant you are immature among your friends. After this holi had another meaning, we used to throw water in small plastic bag (you can call it water bomb) . When you are in college it seems so much cool to throw this water bombs on pedestrians or your friends from your building terrace. And many times it takes some help from police to stop us from throwing it below. But personally nor I or my friends have experienced police intervention in any past years during holi. I was just saying about police by knowing about many people from my locality.
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| this is the color(gulaal) I was talking about. |
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| applying color |
But as you grow up you learn many things such as use of water bombs was limited. Now we use it only occasionally to take revenge among ourselves or to relish your gone days. Now with age even your habits changes, first we used natural color to apply on each other’s face or body. Then as you grow up playing with it also means now you have to change it, so now we play with OIL PAINT (yes you heard it right).
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| during holi your face looks somewhat like this |
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| this is how your face look after holi,you can compare this photo with one I have in my bio section. |
[All the thing described above is the way I have played holi, I can’t say that this is how whole INDIA plays it. But it would be something similar only. And photos shown here are some of the extreme way you can play holi. I don’t think everybody plays in same way.]
