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    Holi is celebrated on the full moon day in February or March in India to mark the victory of good over evil. It is a colorful festival where people throw colored powders and water on each other. The festival commemorates the legend of the demon king Hiranyakashyapu who was killed by Lord Vishnu, and his sister Holika who was burned to ashes while protecting Prahlad, a devotee of Vishnu. In Dallas, the author celebrates Holi by putting colored powders on friends at a temple gathering and eating traditional Indian sweets.

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    Holi is celebrated on the full moon day in February or March in India to mark the victory of good over evil. It is a colorful festival where people throw colored powders and water on each other. The festival commemorates the legend of the demon king Hiranyakashyapu who was killed by Lord Vishnu, and his sister Holika who was burned to ashes while protecting Prahlad, a devotee of Vishnu. In Dallas, the author celebrates Holi by putting colored powders on friends at a temple gathering and eating traditional Indian sweets.

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    Holi is celebrated on the full moon day in February or March in India to mark the victory of good over evil. It is a colorful festival where people throw colored powders and water on each other. The festival commemorates the legend of the demon king Hiranyakashyapu who was killed by Lord Vishnu, and his sister Holika who was burned to ashes while protecting Prahlad, a devotee of Vishnu. In Dallas, the author celebrates Holi by putting colored powders on friends at a temple gathering and eating traditional Indian sweets.

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    Akul Arora

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    Holi is celebrated on the full moon day in February or March in India to mark the victory of good over evil. It is a colorful festival where people throw colored powders and water on each other. The festival commemorates the legend of the demon king Hiranyakashyapu who was killed by Lord Vishnu, and his sister Holika who was burned to ashes while protecting Prahlad, a devotee of Vishnu. In Dallas, the author celebrates Holi by putting colored powders on friends at a temple gathering and eating traditional Indian sweets.

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    My favorite festival: Holi

    Holi is celebrated on the full moon day in the


    month of Phalgun (February-March). It is the victory of
    good over evil. It’s the liveliest, messiest and the most
    colorful festival of the year. This festival is associated
    with immortal love of Krishna and Radha. Hence in
    Mathura and Vrindavan, Holi is celebrated with songs,
    music, plays, dances and colored water is thrown on each
    other.
    According to the legend, Hiranyakashyapu was a
    demon king and he performed a severe penance to
    become the king of all three worlds. Brahma appeared
    and the demon king asked for a boon. “O Brahma, grant
    that neither man, devil, nor God shall cause my death by
    day or night with steel or stone or wood and in a place
    which is neither inside nor outside.” Brahma granted
    him the boon and he declared himself to be the king of all
    three worlds. He ordered all the people to worship him.
    However he had a son named Prahlad who was a devotee
    of Lord Vishnu. The evil demon wanted to kill his son.
    He threw Prahlad down a mountain but Prahlad wasn’t
    injured. Then he made Prahlad eat poisonous food and
    Prahlad was forced to be bitten by snakes but nothing
    affected him. Prahlad continued praying to Lord Vishnu
    and chanted his name fearlessly. The king called his
    sister Holika, who had a boon not to be burned by fire.
    He prepared a pyre, lit it and asked Holika to sit in it,
    clutching Prahlad. Holika was burnt to ashes and Prahlad
    continued to chant the name of Lord Vishnu. On Holi
    eve, this legend is relived when a bonfire is lit and a
    model of wicked witch Holika is burnt. On the next day,
    the fun begins. People wear their oldest clothes and they
    throw colored powders all over each other using
    Pichkaris. People visit homes, distribute sweets and
    apply gulal on each other. They greet and hug each
    other. In the evening, they have a bath, change their
    clothes and then they visit their friends to wish them a
    Happy Holi.
    In Dallas, we celebrate Holi in Balgokulum. We
    put gulal on each other and hug each other. Everyone
    brings sweets like barfi, ladoos, gujhiya, gulab-jamun,
    etc. Then, I eat all the mithais I like. A karyakarta tells
    all the children the story about Prahlad and why we
    celebrate Holi. It’s really fun to smear gulal on my
    friends’ faces, hair and neck.
    We also go to Hindu temple. Hundreds of people
    come there and we throw different colored powders on
    each other. There was a cultural function that included
    plays, songs, and dances on Holi theme.
    Holi is celebration of the harvest season and the
    spring festival of India.
    To me, Holi is a celebration of life – the life of
    love, joy and good spirits. It is the festival of color, a
    time of merry making and enjoyment. It restores cheer
    and peace of mind. Holi means ‘sacrifice’. Therefore we
    should burn all the impurities of our minds.

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