The Colour Run

March as per the Gregorian calendar. The festival has, in recent times spread in parts of Europe and North Americas as spring celebration of love, frolic and colours. Anyone and everyone are fair game, friends or strangers, rich or poor man and woman, children and elders. The frolic and fight with colors occurs in the open streets, open parks, outside temples and buildings. People move and visit family, friends, and foes, first play with colours on each other, laugh, chit chat, then share Holi delicious foods and drinks. The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, end of winter and for many festive days to meet other, play and laugh, forget and forgive and repair ruptured relationship. Holi festival may be celebrated with various names and people of different district might be following different traditions. But, what makes Holi so unique and special is the spirit of it which remains the same throughout the country and even across the globe, wherever it is celebrated.