Happy Holi 2018: People get into celebratory mood with festivity of colour

Holi Hai ! Google dedicates doodle to festival of colours

Holi Hai ! Google dedicates doodle to festival of colours

Vishwabharati in Shantiniketan is an old and famous university of West Bengal where Basant Utsav festival started first to celebrate with colors.

The celebrations offering traditional prayers, playing with colors and water, singing, dancing, playing music, along with exchanging joy, delicious foods, among others with family and friends.

Earlier, district administration offices and police had appealed to all to celebrate Holi in a decent and peaceful manner. Holi marks the end of winter and onset of spring.

Art depicts Krishna and Radha in Hyderabad, India. If you want to enjoy Dol, then Shantiniketan in Bolpur of Birbhum district is the place you ought to be. People especially visit Vrindavan to play Holi as Banke Bihari Ji dressed up in white clothes to play the colors with his devotees. People also perform parikrama (circling) of the fire.

Nepal is all set to turn colorful!

Google is the company which celebrates every festival with their doodle.

In the northern town of Barsana, women wield wooden sticks to beat up men singing risque songs in a version called “Lathmar”, or stick-wielding Holi. This is known as Lathmar Holi. Friends and family enjoy this festival by colours and exchange candies. With chants of hari bhajans, dance, colours, water, flowers and candies, the festival is celebrated with great fervor.

Holi is a grand affair in the western state of India in Rajasthan, especially in Udaipur. Holi, festival of romance and respect is for all the people around the world.

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It is also celebrated with great enthusiasm in Jaipur and Ajmer.

The Google Doodle marked the festival of Holi that is being celebrated across India and especially North India on Friday. Poetry competitions, smearing of colors and a feast also follows the age old tradition. But this is not the only way to celebrate the festival.

Holi is celebrated as "Yawol Shang" in Manipur.

Children dress up in traditional attire for Yaosang in Manipur.

A variety of colours have flooded the city markets and keeping in tune with growing demand for organic colours, they are stocked in good quantities by shopkeepers in Begum Bazar.

People must realise the gravity of the situation and avoid wasting water.

Holi is played with turmeric.

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