Do you celebrate Holi and enjoy the same? (Spring festival of India)

hello sreekala, Well sorry to know what the kids doing a week before of the festival kids will always be kids, in Hare Khrisna Temple here they celebrates HOLI but instead of color powder they use flowers so you really can join this festival. For two years i tried to join them in celebrating Holi but i dont have a luck because of my schedule i think even this year i cannot make it . SHUBH HOLI! happy mylotting

hahaha.... already colored. A big no for any celebration. You know i live my life almost lonely... and dont like any celebration or crowd. I have no friend circle to gossip for a long time. I think i am much better as i am. Here, holi is celebrated for two days... first day water and color... next day mud. Just imagine... you are walking and someone holds you and throw you to a muddy pond. Disgusting. Its 100% unhygienic and people get irritated. Again, the kids ask money from you... too many kids and have to donate a large amount to money. Better to stay home and think about some innovative ideas and some good discussions for mylot. lol Take care.

hi Sree I love festivals and only because it is celebration time. I have been at places where this Holi is celebrated for 10 days and I can understand the issue you mention. Before my illness, we (me and my group of friends) would be out playing the colors from morning 7:00 to day 2:00 but today, it is only the dry colors that I have and only a few friends who visit me. But I love the sweets and food (though not allowed to munch on these much)

Hi Sreekala, In Malaysia, we do not celebrate Holi, this is the first time I heard about Holi. Here we only celebrate ThaiPusam and Deepavali. These are 2 big festival that our Indian citizen celebrate. Of course as a multi racial country we do celebrate together these festival together.

I am an Indonesian and we do not have this kind of holiday, as majority of the citizen is Muslim. By your description, it sounds a fun holiday. I would love throwing water and color to the people around me and laugh together as someone face splattered with colors. Yes, it is terrible if the children do it before the real holiday thus disturbing people going to school or work.

Happy Holi you too.. Here everyone enjoy this festival. In fact my younger cousins have already purchased colors and other stuff for that day... Frankly speaking I also like to enjoy it with all my family. But with gulal only... I really don't like those chemical mix color which remain on the skin for couple of week. But here nobody listen me .. All friends always use those crazy colors and i had to go every where in that week(after holi) with color on my face..

Hi Sree! I do not enjoy Holi as I used to in yesteryears. I also feel pretty bad when some spoiled and uncivilised kids throw water filled ballons on everybody and anybody and specially females. It looks digusting to me, when they do so even before few days to festivals. I am sorry to hear that you got wet twice and I can understand your plight (you must be fuming, when someone would have thrown water or water filled ballon(s) on you. I feel that people should behave themselves and educate their children that they should not 'disturb' those, who are not willing to indulge in the festival.

Dear friend, As a south Indian there few neighbors of us here from north India. Once the Holi celebrations went bit hash. The residence association interfered and from there own wards Holi was going smoothly without hurting others. I too respect this festival,not only this all most all festivals. Moreover I also respect the celebrations if it do not hurt others.

hi Sreekala can an aged American join in here? lol. I am fascinated with ally your various Festivals and you know I wish we here i n the US had some sort of Holiday welcoming spring. Its such a wonderful Idea. I realize this is just part of your culture but I am not at all making fun of it., One of the reasons I have been on mylot so long is that I love that with the touch of my keys I can learn from my friends in other countries about your own cultures and your customs and can share what ' I have here in the US of mine.I truly enjoy hearing about your Indian culture.

Hello sree good day my dear friend..NO we don't celebrate Holi festival here in our country but we have lots of nonsense celebration based on nonsense traditions. I hate these thing when it comes because most of these celebrations annoy and bother to some people who never celebrate this...they never think of some other people's sake...thanks just relax and be cool.. Mobhomeir here..

Hi kala, 'Holi' is celebrated basically by the North Indian people. However though we all celebrate this now. Since 'Holi' is round the corner youngster are ready with their equipments like color and 'pichkary' and other thing as well. I have seen people getting drunk on that day and never erasing out kind of color all on the face and hand and neck everywhere. The real purpose of celebration od Holi has got polluted now and has become excuses for some anti social people to misbehave with girls/women and harassing people with color and mud. Here in Assam we celebrate it for three days. The first day is plain. They touch the feet of the person and apply some color either as a tilak or paste on the cheek. Whatsoever, personally I do not like to get involved in it and keep myself indoor.

hello dear sis, Here in our country,some Cities and towns celebrated festival that sounds a-like ,like Holi,throwing water without the colors. This kind of celebration is called "Fiesta de San Juan" San Juan or Saint John,because in the BIBLE, it is Saint John who baptized JESUS with water in the river Nile. So,in memory of St.John...once a year there is a celebration held where in people throw water or spray water to bypassers or even to vehicles that passes by. It's fun,but for people who goes to work and get wet..it's not funny of course. So,you do not celebrate this festival dear sis? I just wonder about the color that are used...is it washable? How about the houses that are being stained with the colors..is it easy to remove?

Holi ia a great ancient and traditional and fully enjoyment festival of India. We all have to share the smiles in the form of colors. But i feel fear, on the day of holi i simply can sleep inside the home, after completion of holi, in the evening i will comes outside, but it is not good we have to do enjoy in the holi...

Hi friend! i am also from india. Holi is one of the best festival in india. We play with colours on this day. All indian meet with each other & forget their sadnees.

Hi Sree, I think both of us are acting like mean old witches (LOL) coz these are my exact sentiments during this time of the year. I dread this day mainly coz my son is hell bent on playing holi and dirtying everything around (which needless to say, I have to clean). Secondly, this is a new place where we are staying right now, so I don’t allow my son to go out on the streets…this means if he has to play Holi, it will have to be at home and with me (can you imagine!!!) thirdly, as it is I am working so hard throughout the week, I really want to enjoy and relax on a holiday but if you do play Holi, there is no rest for you from all that cleaning and scrubbing. So I’ve actually made a deal with my son that if he doesn’t insist on playing then I wont insist on him studying the entire weekend (LOL) makes me feel bad for him, he’s only 11yrs old though and at his age, I remember, I used to play Holi quite thoroughly… but then we had aunts and uncles and cousins and somehow the time just passed without bothering anybody too much.

Hi Sree, after reading the info above I then come to know that there is a festival in your place for people to welcome the beautiful spring season by throwing colors and water. Apart from the mischievous kids who abuse the festival celebration ways a week earlier I hope many still enjoyed the great festive celebration joyously. The Indian people here don't celebrate Holi festival. If so I think I have to put on raincoat as well as helmet if walking on the road or street Just like you, I hate to be the unfortunate victim attacked in a sudden on the way to work for days. It's really awful our decent attire will get wet and dirty when the horrible water bombs burst on us Today is 21st and Holi is over, I believe there isn't any kids lurking in somewhere around to bomb you anymore. Hopefully parents would aware that it's vulgarity to let their kids to play a joke on passerby wildly before the celebration of Holi. It's their responsibility to teach and to guide them and to stop them to do so. Take care deer and happy posting

I do not celebrate holi but i really miss the festival as i stay in south India where most of them are unaware of this festival. My childhood and youth was spent in the eastern part of India whhere it is called Dol Jatra. The olden and unwanted things are burnt before the celebration of holi that is a day before the holi festival. I read the celebration described the friend from mathura and i wished i was there. Although it is is irritating when children play such pranks, holi should ne played with fun and frolic, a festival where both young and old participate. Children should be taught by the parents about the importance of the festival and rebuked when they play such pranks. I would blame the parents and not the children for such naughtiness. Anyways have a nice time and Happy Holi.

For me not because I'm not a Muslim so be god to it maybe Jehovah God not get angry to you.

Dear Sreekala My last holi celebration was in 1959, i was reading in class 9th than, a guy of this area applied human excretion over my head mixed with 'gulal', i knew it instantly from the smell, i had a fight with him in film style, two of his teeth were gone, he was drunk too.. This year some of my exstudents came to play holi, they are all 45+, live in this area, i could not deny, they applied gulal on my forehead and touched my feet It was so good. Here too holi was 2 days, one they call 'bada holi' and other 'chhota holi' Thanks for sharing Cheers. God bless you, have a nice day ahead. Professor ‘Bhuwan’. .

Hai Sreekala I am south Indian But still we celebrate Holy the same way in North India and especially me I would Think it is an Indian festival and it should be celebrated by all of us.thank you nice question.