WATCH VIDEOS | Drenched In Colours Of Festivity India Celebrates Holi 2022

In India, the festival of colours, Holi, is celebrated in various ways. Every year, people celebrate the holiday with great zeal and delight with their friends and family.

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New Delhi: In India, Holi is one of the most vivid and colourful festivals. After a long winter, the event celebrates the arrival of spring. It is observed on a full-moon spring day of the Hindu calendar's Phalguna month.

Holi is being celebrated on March 18 this year, while Chhoti Holi was celebrated on March 17.

Holi is a festival that celebrates the triumph of good over evil and is a day when people forgive, forget, and release bad energy from their life in order to start over.

In India, the festival of colours, Holi, is celebrated in various ways. Every year, people celebrate the holiday with great zeal and delight with their friends and family. Though the form of celebration varies by place, the passion is universal. 

Here's How People Across India Celebrated Holi 2022

#WATCH | People were seen dancing with joy while playing Holi with each other in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj pic.twitter.com/jCIngsO0Fg

— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) March 18, 2022

#WATCH Assam | Multitudnous crowd of people celebrate #Holi with colours while dancing to the tunes of songs in Guwahati pic.twitter.com/M1CfX1jgBD

— ANI (@ANI) March 18, 2022

Andhra Pradesh | #Holi celebrations underway with full vigour in Vijayawada. pic.twitter.com/q3hJlCOmZB

— ANI (@ANI) March 18, 2022

Telangana | People celebrate #Holi with colours, gulaal and tomatoes in Hyderabad. pic.twitter.com/kR0jUPkLTj

— ANI (@ANI) March 18, 2022

Rajasthan | Tourists, and locals play #Holi with colours and gulal in Pushkar pic.twitter.com/aLLQ9usNwR

— ANI (@ANI) March 18, 2022

#WATCH Maharashtra | Children play #Holi with each other with colours and water guns in Pune pic.twitter.com/OWcFqFiAoK

— ANI (@ANI) March 18, 2022

#WATCH | Locals of Boniyar, Baramulla district dance and celebrate #Holi with Indian Army jawans in remote areas of the district in Jammu and Kashmir.

(Source: Indian Army) pic.twitter.com/R6Poq7HVSH

— ANI (@ANI) March 18, 2022

#WATCH Tamil Nadu | People from the Rajasthani community in Coimbatore play #Holi with colours and dance on regional songs from Rajasthan pic.twitter.com/6kVpull7E1

— ANI (@ANI) March 18, 2022

#WATCH | Jammu & Kashmir: CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) jawans dance and celebrate #Holi in Srinagar. pic.twitter.com/mYCqSGf93v

— ANI (@ANI) March 18, 2022

#WATCH Gujarat | People play #Holi with colours and water with great fervour by dancing to the tunes of songs in Ahmedabad pic.twitter.com/cUlrykVW5y

— ANI (@ANI) March 18, 2022

#WATCH | #Holi celebrations at the residence of Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Bhopal, people hoist him on their shoulders as they splash colours to celebrate the festival. pic.twitter.com/woJqcSDyks

— ANI MP/CG/Rajasthan (@ANI_MP_CG_RJ) March 18, 2022

#WATCH West Bengal | People along with young children celebrate the festival of 'Dol Utsav' by singing & dancing to the rhythm of traditional songs in a cultural programme in Kolkata#Holi pic.twitter.com/QxnLfQiCdV

— ANI (@ANI) March 18, 2022

History Of Holi

As per Hindu mythology, Lord Brahma granted King Hiranyakashipu a boon that he would never be killed by a man or an animal. He began bothering his subjects, compelling them to adore him, believing himself to be all-powerful.

Furious that his own son Prahlad remained a devout follower of Lord Vishnu, he plotted to assassinate him with the assistance of his sister Holika, who possessed a fire-resistant boon. The monarch requested that his sister take control of Prahlad as he sat on fire. Holika perished in the fire, but Lord Vishnu saved Prahlad.

Large bonfires are lighted across the country on the night of the celebration — Chhoti Holi or Holika Dahan — to symbolise the time when virtue prevailed over evil. Rituals are performed, and dried leaves, wood, and twigs are thrown into the fire.