Cries of “Holi hai!” rang out across India on Friday, as revellers young and old frolicked in rainbow clouds and ducked jets of water to celebrate the end of the harvest season. As the hues of spring conquered a landscape made bleak and barren by the rigours of winter, powder, paint and delirium flooded faces worn by work and worry. And good, in the minds of millions of Indians, vanquished evil once again.
Greetings and best wishes to fellow citizens on the auspicious occasion of Holi. The festival of colours, Holi is a celebration of harmony in our society. May it bring peace, joy and prosperity to everyoneтАЩs lives #PresidentKovind
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 2, 2018
Holi, as these pictures lavishly demonstrate, is a photographer’s dream. Rarely does the cameraman get a chance to capture joy so pure, so absolute, both in the abstract and the real. Sound like hyperbole? Scroll down, feast your eyes on these images – of an old woman kissing her monkey, of the delight on a visually-impaired child’s face, of youth playing with an older man, a study in solemnity despite being bespattered with colour – and you’ll agree with us that Holi is like no other festival.
This morning, Holi’s colours adorned┬аGoogle’s Doodle, a graphic the tech giant creates to commemorate special events and honour great men and women. Red, green and blue, the progenitors of all colour, dyed its dancing figures.
Paint the town red. And blue, and yellow, and green. #HappyHoli #GoogleDoodle pic.twitter.com/wA9saRK3kM
— Google India (@GoogleIndia) March 2, 2018
The cheerful #TariniGirls splash colours on Holi. Greetings. @indiannavy @DefenceMinIndia @PIB_India @PIBHindi pic.twitter.com/wFaIBM1pQs
— Nirmala Sitharaman (@nsitharaman) March 2, 2018
With India Today
