Red for victory; yellow for happiness; blue for peace; orange for joy; green for wealth; pink for love and purple for health: may all these colors blend you and result a new color called your life.
So goes the only sms wish I received on Fagu Purnima [or Holi – the festival of colors]; it may not exactly represent the meaning of the colors but it surely represent the theme of the festival. The festival of colors meant to bring happiness on us as we celebrate the victory of good over evil.
The festival, celebrated of good’s victory over evil, by smearing colors on faces. For my community, we sacrifice a he-goat to god Bhairav in a temple that existed in our neighborhood since before my birth. Since the offering is done in the morning, it takes half-day to complete the function and then, with all hands smeared in red color while hand-painting the big stone – that we call Bhairav, there is hardly any chance to leave the temple without red smeared on face.
So, despite many people of my age, not playing with colors and water, I along with my relatives generally celebrate it. Same was this year [also drinking of Ghhotta – a drink that sometime makes you more than tipsy and smoking marijiuana].
It was a joy! The festival is a joy [ok unless you turn to be a girl on the street as pointed out in this blog post.]
0 responses to “Fagu Purnima: It’s all about colors”
I can’t anything much about HOLI other than it feels more like Holi Hooliganism to me like most women would in KTM…though I wish things were different and we could celebrate/feel happy and not traumatized with the arrival of this festival !! But until that happens I’ll have to keep reminiscing my school Holi-days which is , no doubt pathetic… Anyways it always feels good to know that someone out there in the ‘Holi celebrating’ world had lots of fun on the day with friends and family involving no hooliganism 🙂
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Thanks Z.
I really enjoyed it. I never liked the idea of lola [or even water]! I hate the idea of hitting girls with lola [can not prevent it other than scolding some of the younger ones].
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