The mood and backdrop:
Holi, the great Indian festival of colors, is a unique celebration of
high spirits, when the new season is courted with a riot of rich colors.
It is like a grand kaleidoscope that glorifies all the hues that tinge
and renew the lives on earth.
It falls on the full moon day of the March, the month when the nippy
north wind bows out to the refreshing and rejuvenating breeze from the
south, heralding the onset of the ensuing summer in this part of the
world. It is thus a festival of spring. The time when the seasonal cycle
is caught on a transition. This is when nature starts donning new color.
The new foliages start sprouting on the branches, dried and weary over a
winter. It is also time when the harvests are reaped and bundled in
sheaves. The air is filled with promises of warmth and new lives as the
earth discards the wintry glum to greet the bright sun of summer. Beset
with this exhilarating backdrop, Holi comes, flinging colors and verve
into the landscape of India. As if to mark the renewal and rebirth of
life. Holi is thus a celebration of life, the life of love, unblemished
joy, and good spirits.
The spirit & significance of colors:
Celebrating the mood of nature with a range of colors. This is what
colors of Holi signify. The spirit of celebration is to showcase the
shifting panorama of life, of sights, movement of feelings.
The human hearts also feel the urge to be recharged with new colors to
catch on the mood outside. And Holi gives us a wonderful chance to do
this. For, it reminds us that the time is perfect to be colored, to
renew love and recharge your vitality. All in sync with nature. And the
color symbolizes the energy, the vivid, passionate pulse of life
signifying vitality.
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