Holi America Celebrate
Holi is Hindu religious festival, known as the festival of colours or the festival of love.
The festival is said to signify the victory of good over evil, and the arrival of spring.
It's celebrated all over India and now around the world, and is all about partying and enjoyment Festival In Word.
The Festival of Colors, known as Holi, is now celebrated across American cities and towns from Boston to Los Angeles, from Salt Lake City to Houston. While the festival originates in the religious tradition of Hinduism, all parts of society are welcomed regardless of spiritual affiliation. As played out in America, entire families show up in white or light-colored clothes and sprinkle, spray or smear one another with bright red, pink, green, yellow, purple, magenta and blue colors. Colors cover not only the clothes, but the faces, arms and hair in a bacchanalian burst of boundless delight. Upbeat Holi songs from Bollywood movies and high-calorie foods from India's diverse ethnic regions are the backdrop of everyone hugging one another.
Bollywood movies often depict a musical Holi interlude and many of these videos have acquired a fabled status on you tube.
And at Holi, we don’t simply throw colors in each other faces it’s a place to play with people you love and revel in the vibrancy of spring. One of our favorite and most colorful holidays is being, pun intended, white-washed. And it’s like we’ve been completely eradicated from this event as nowhere on the Color Run™ website is there mention of India, Holi, Krishna, or even spring. Apparently this is a completely organic creation of the Color Run head honchos. And they’re making loads of money from it.
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