FESTIVAL OF COLOURS

Holi is festival of colors which generally falls on a full moon in March. It is also a festival of love, unity and celebrates the great success of good over evil. The festival is celebrated with lot of specious glory. Holi is celebrated with bright and striking colors. These colors are actually colors of joy, love and color that fill our happiness to the core of our hearts. We can hear from our elders that long ago there was a king named Hiranyakashyapu, and he had a son, Prahlad who was highly devoted to god. But his devotion enraged his father and the father planned to kill him. His father asked his sister Holika, who was immune to fire, to sit in fire taking Prahlad in her lap. Fortunately, Prahlad who was blessed by Lord was saved and Holika was burnt to ashes. This gave birth to the festival of Holi.

In this festival, all hearts are lighted with glory and people everywhere enjoy with their near and dear ones with different colors. People also throw water balloons on each other and on passer-by too. Many are also drenched in colored water. Hours pass by throwing colors at each other and it seems as if it’s just the start of the day.

It’s a festival of joy but then there are few who make this festival, festival of evil. They do this by using colors that are difficult to remove and unsafe for skin and health. Many take it as a day of drinking alcohol but we should not forget that Holi is a festival of great success of good over evil. We must try to wash away all the evils in our hearts along with the colors and allow the color of love to stay there forever and ever.

-Manjeel Shrestha