A couple smile, their faces covered with colored powder during the Holi Festival in Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukrainians mark a popular ancient Hindu Holi Festival, also known as the festival...
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A woman smiles as her face is covered with colored powder during the Holi Festival in Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukrainians mark a popular ancient Hindu Holi Festival, also known as the festiv...
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The safest colour Right, a splash of blue flung in the Holi spirit in Chennai pauses mid-air, as if to contemplate the recipient’s masked line of defence
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The traditional ‘Holika dahan’ monster in Mumbai is coronavirus incarnate this year
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Fear Suspended
A nasty virus maybe doing the rounds, making people scuttle back to their holes, but Holi is for flouting norms, our shudh desi bacchanalia. At the colour-splattered Holi bash held...
Union Minister of State for Rural Development Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti celebrates Holi Bhai Dooj with Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, in New Delhi.
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People celebrate ‘Kodamar Holi’ in Beawar.
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Revellers celebrate Holi festival in Kullu.
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Bollywood actor Amyra Dastur gestures as she poses for photographs during ‘Holi’ celebrations at a party, in Mumbai.
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Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez celebrates the Holi festival in Mumbai.
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Afghan nationals play with dry colours during Holi celebrations in New Delhi.
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People play with dry colours during Holi celebrations in New Delhi.
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People smeared in color spray water and dance during celebrations marking Holi, the festival of colors, in Prayagraj.
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Devotees cheer as colored powder and water is sprayed on them by a priest during celebrations marking Holi at the Swaminarayan temple in Ahmedabad.
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RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav, elder son of RJD Chief Laloo Prasad, celebrates Holi festival with his party workers at his residence in Patna.
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Revellers smeared in colours pose for photographs during Holi festival in Thane.
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BJP worker smears colours on Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat as part of Holi celebrations in Dehradun.
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Indians dance and throw colored powder during Holi festival celebrations in Gawahati.
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Hindu devotees cheer as colored powder and water is sprayed on them by a Hindu priest during celebrations marking Holi at the Swaminarayan temple in Ahmedabad.
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A woman's hair is smeared with colored powder during celebrations marking the Holi festival in Mumbai.
"Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will not celebrate the Holi festival tomorrow as a mark of respect to the martyrs of Pulwama terror attack" the AAP posted on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday.
To be quiet in the boisterous Vrindavan Holi crowd is like submitting yourself to all eventualities. The bhang, though, can be pacifying—more so
when bucketfuls of coloured water topple your hat and the smart monkey snatches away the goggles
According to police, the victim Neeraj Jatav, 16, was playing Holi with persons from other community when clashes broke out between the two sides at Bhiwadi town.
According to the report, local residents said Ashish had stopped these men from assaulting a boy for throwing water balloons on them a day before Holi.
"For all the tall claims of people, I had the example of Charlie Chaplin to prove that you don’t need an extra foot to gain stature in your chosen field," recalls actor Rajpal Yadav.