Playing Holi
Yesterday (Sunday) Oween, Fiona and I were invited over to Naresh’s place to celebrate Holi.
Holi is a really cool festival associated with the Spring, and it is celebrated with an “exchange of colours”. What this means is that you buy packets of powdered dyes in specatacular colours, and throw them at each other, or to improve the effect, use water pistols…
As a result I am now stained a vibrant pink colour. I am assured that this will not last too long — a month at most…
It was also one of Naresh’s nephew’s first Holi festivals — so there was a special ceremony involving many women friends of the family who sat in a room singing songs, before taking him to the nearby temple for a special ceremony.
And of course no Indian street is complete without at least one contented looking cow…
