Holi celebration with students
Our Indian culture is known for various festivals. Today we are celebrating Holi! Holi is a Hindu spring festival celebrated in the India, also known as the "festival of colours". It signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, end of winter, and for many a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships. Holi celebrations start on the night before Holi with a Holika Dahan where people gather, perform religious rituals in front of the bonfire, and pray that their internal evil be destroyed the way Holika, the sister of the demon king Hiranyakashipu, was killed in the fire. The next morning is celebrated as Dhulivandan – a free-for-all festival of colours, where people smear each other with colours and drench each other. Today I told my students the importance of Holi. I discussed with them how do they celebrate Holi and told them how did we used to celebrate it in our childhood. I told them how the colours ...