Holi 2024: Date, History and How to celebrate Holi?

Holi 2024:Holi is one of the major festivals of Hindus which is celebrated across the country with great enthusiasm and fervor. This is the

festival of colours

and happiness. People play it with Gulal, colours, water and balloons. The festival of colours brings joy and happiness to millions of people. This year,

Holi celebration

conincdes with

Lunar Eclipse

but this Eclipse wont be visible in India.

This year, Holi is being be celebrated on March 25, 2024.
Holi 2024: How Holi is celebrated?
1. Play with colours - The most common things in celebrating Holi is the use of colours and Gulal. People smear Gularl and colours on each other which is a playful thing. People gather in open spaces and they smear each other with Gulal and celebrate the day with immense joy and happiness. This is how they celebrate the arrival of spring.
2. Triumph of good over evil - This is the day when

Lord Vishnu

killed the Hiranyakashipu and saved his ardent devotees Bhakt Prahald so people celebrate this day with great enthusiasms and enjoy the victory of righteousness.

3. Holika Dahan - A day before playing the Holi with colours, people celebrate the Holika Dahan. Holika was a sistwer of Hiranyakashipu who wanted to kill his son. Holika was fire resistant and she sat on fire keeping Prahalad in her lap but he was killed and Lord Vishnu saved Bhakt Prahald.
4. Enjoy dancing - On this auspicious festival of Holi, people gather at one place and they enjoy this festival by signing and dancing and most of the people also drink Bhang, which is most common drink of Holi celebration.

5. Feasting - People prepare different types of delicacies such as Gujhiya, Namak Paare, samosas, and Dahi Bhalle at home and they invite their loved ones to enjoy the food together.
6. Bonding and relationships - This is not only the festival of colours but this is the festival of bonding and relationships. On this auspicious occasion, people rejuvenite theior
7. Rituals and Puja - A day before Holi festival, Holika Dahan is observed and people gahter at one place and bonfire is lit where people offer prayers.
Why do we celebrate Holi?
The festival of colours, Holi is celebrated for two days. First day, people perform rituals on Holika Dahan and the next day play with colours. It also holds the meaning of triumph of good over evil from the story of god Vishnu as Narasimha and celebrates it with "Holika Dahan" by performing rituals in front of the bonfire. Holi festival also signifies the end of winter. Holi is the celebration of the eternal and divine love of Radha and Lord Krishna, and celebrates it by playing with colors or flowers.
In Barsana, UP, Every year, during the period of Holi, thousands of devotees and tourists celebrate the festival of color with a very unique style called, Lathmar Holi. As per the beliefs, it's a way of playing Holi with a stick and a shield held by men and women respectively. It's a spectacular view for tourists as it gives an erratic perceptive to them. The concept behind Lathmar Holi is that it portrays the relationship between Radha and Lord Krishna- the eternal love story in Hinduism.
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