37 Facts About Holi

Holi is a popular ancient Hindu festival, known as the Festival of Spring, the Festival of Colours or the Festival of Love.

Holi celebrates the arrival of spring, the end of winter, the blossoming of love and for many, it is a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships.

Holi is an Ancient Indian religious festival that has become popular outside of India.

Holi festival has a cultural significance among various Hindu traditions of the Indian subcontinent.

Beyond India, these legends help to explain the significance of Holi are common in some Caribbean and South American communities of Indian origin such as Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.

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Holi subjected Prahlada to cruel punishments, none of which affected the boy or his resolve to do what he thought was right.

The Kama legend and its significance to Holi has many variant forms, particularly in South India.

In Mughal India, Holi was celebrated with such exuberance that people of all castes could throw colour on the Emperor.

Grand celebrations of Holi were held at the Lal Qila, where the festival was known as Eid-e-gulaabi or Aab-e-Pashi.

Holi was observed by Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his Sikh Empire that extended across what are now northern parts of India and Pakistan.

Holi is celebrated at the end of winter, on the last full moon day of the Hindu luni-solar calendar month marking the spring, making the date vary with the lunar cycle.

The next day, Holi, known as Dhuli in Sanskrit, or Dhulheti, Dhulandi or Dhulendi, is celebrated.

Holi festival is an ancient Hindu festival with its cultural rituals.

The celebration of Holi is mentioned in the 7th-century Sanskrit drama Ratnavali.

The festival of Holi caught the fascination of European traders and British colonial staff by the 17th century.

Holi is a festival of forgiveness and new starts, which ritually aims to generate harmony in society.

Holi is known as Basanto Utsav (Bengali: ) ("Spring festival") in West Bengal and Assam; Festival of Colours, or Dol Jatra (Assamese: ) in Assam, Dola jatra (Odia: ) in Odisha; known as Phakuwa or Phagwah (Assamese: ).

Holi is of particular significance in the Braj region, which includes locations traditionally associated with the Krishna: Mathura, Vrindavan, Nandgaon, Uttar Pradesh, and Barsana, which become touristic during the season of Holi.

Outside India and Nepal, Holi is observed by Hindus in Bangladesh and Pakistan as well in countries with large Indian subcontinent diaspora populations such as Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Mauritius, and Fiji.

Holi Milan is observed in Bihar, where family members and well-wishers visit each other's family, apply colours on each other's faces, and on feet, if elderly.

The colour festival or Holi is a part of longer, more extensive spring festival celebrations.

In Jammu and Kashmir, Holi celebrations are much in line with the general definition of Holi celebrations: a high-spirited festival to mark the beginning of the harvesting of the summer crop, with the throwing of coloured water and powder and singing and dancing.

In Sirsi, Karnataka, Holi is celebrated with a unique folk dance called "Bedara Vesha", which is performed during the nights beginning five days before the actual festival day.

In Maharashtra, Holi Purnima is celebrated as Shimga, festivities that last five to seven days.

Holi is known by different names: Kamavilas, Kamuni Panduga and Kama-Dahanam.

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In Tripura Holi is known as "Pali" which means colour in Tripuri language, it's celebrated all over Tripura.

Holi celebrated at Barsana is unique in the sense that here women chase men away with sticks.

All over the Braj region and neighbouring places like Hathras, Aligarh, and Agra, Holi is celebrated in more or less the same way as in Mathura, Vrindavan and Barsana.

The songs of the Khari Holi are sung by the people, who, sporting traditional white churidar payajama and kurta, dance in groups to the tune of ethnic musical instruments such as the dhol and hurka.

Holi is celebrated with great gusto much in the same way all across North India.

In West Bengal, Holi is known by the name of "Dol Jatra", "Dol Purnima" or the "Swing Festival".

Holi is celebrated by the minority Hindu population in Pakistan.

Holi is celebrated in many US states by mainly Asian Americans, particularly those with Indian ancestry.

Some of the places known to celebrate Holi are New Brunswick, Spanish Fork (Utah), Houston (TX), Dallas (TX), South El Monte (CA), Milpitas (CA), Boston (MA), Potomac (MD), and Chicago (IL).

Use of heavy metal-based pigments during Holi is reported to cause temporary wastewater pollution, with the water systems recovering to pre-festival levels within 5 days.

Holi is celebrated as a social event in parts of the United States.

The BiH Color Festival is a Holi-inspired electronic music festival held annually in Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina.