nPosted on March 20, 2019
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nFor a while there, I didn’t know too many people who had even heard of India’s “festival of colors,” Holi…
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n…But now it seems as if everyone wants in on the fun!
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nHoli is the Hindu spring festival. It is celebrated in India and Nepal, mostly – but, like I said, it’s begun to become known and then celebrated and then popular elsewhere in Asia and the world…
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nHere are some of the many meanings of Holi: welcoming spring… the ending of winter… the victory of good over evil… festival of love… thanksgiving for a good harvest…
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nAnd this is why it is called the festival of colors:
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People smear and daub and sprinkle and throw and spray colors on one another. There are colored powders plus water balloons and water guns.
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nHere are some of the many meanings of Holi: welcoming spring… the ending of winter… the victory of good over evil… festival of love… thanksgiving for a good harvest…
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People smear and daub and sprinkle and throw and spray colors on one another. There are colored powders plus water balloons and water guns.n
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nThis can happen in the street, in parks, outside temples and houses and other buildings.
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nActually, Holi is a two-part holiday: one evening / night celebration, and then the next day, the daytime celebration. It’s the daytime one everyone is crazy about, with all its colors – and this year it is held on March 21 (tomorrow) – but the nighttime celebration is fun, too. (This year it is March 20, tonight.) It features a bonfire!
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nIllustrator Mitsumasa Anno’s birthday
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nSnowman Burning Day
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nVernal Equinox
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First Day of Spring
First Day of Spring
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nAnniversary of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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nNowruz, or Persian New Year
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nBirthday of television personality Mr. Rogers
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nWorld Frog Day
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nPurim
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nBirthday of author Louis Sachar
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nPlan ahead:
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nCheck out my Pinterest boards for:
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nHistorical anniversaries in March
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nAnd here are my Pinterest boards for:
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