Essays

Colours will fill the atmosphere as people throw abeer and gulal in the air showing great joy and mirth in the arrival of this Spring Festival.

Holi marks the end of the winter gloom and rejoices in the bloom of the spring time. It is the best time and season to celebrate; Holi provides this opportunity and people take every advantage of it.

Days before Holi, the markets get flooded with the colours of every hues. This aptly sets the mood of the people till the actual day of Holi. It is such a colourful and joyous sight to watch huge piles of bright red, magenta, pink, green and blue everywhere on the streets.

Buying those colours seems as you are bringing joys and colour to your home and into your life. Children taketerrial delight in the festival and demand every colourin load. They have so many plans in their mind.

They have to be the first to apply colour to Mama, Papa, siblings and a big bunch of friends in their colony. Nobody could miss being coloured by them and of course, they need colour for that.

These days it is easy to buy colours from the market but steel some people do take up the task of making colours at home, usually from flowers of tesu and palash. These home madecolours, have a special fragrance of love in them.

The other option is to buy gulal which comes in bright shades of pink, magenta, red, yellow and green. 'Abeeris made of small crystals or paper like chips of mice This is mixed with the gulal for a rich shine.

Mischievous ones, however, go for silver and gold paints on which no colour could be applied. Whatever be the choice of colour, nobody remains in their originaltexture at the end of the play. And everybody takes delight looking at the other. Really, the other name of the festival is FUN.

And, it is not just children, but the young and the old alike who take delight in this joyous festival of colours seniors too, move in their tolls. Their enthusiasm is .at times greater than that of their children as they forget the bars of age and follow their hearts.

To youth, holi gives a chance to explore the heights of their enthusiasm as they climb the human pyramids, tobreak the pot of buttermilk and to express their loveto their beloved by applying colour.

For, Holi knows no bars, everybody feels it is their right to enjoy and enjoy they do. Songs, dance, drinks, foodeverything goes in excess when it is time for Holi.

It can be said, "Life turns Colourful" when it is time for Holi.