Holi 2017: Celebration pictures across India

Most famous Hindu festival of colors 'Holi' is being celebrated not even in India but over cease too including Pakistan. This colorful festival attracts tourists from all over the world. Check out the celebration pictures/Image courtesy- AFP

In this Thursday, March 9, 2017, photo, an Indian widow smeared with colors play Holi at the Gopinath temple, in Vrindavan, 180 kilometers (112 miles) south-east of New Delhi, India. Up to just a few years ago the festival was forbidden for Hindu widows. Like hundreds of thousands of observant Hindu women, they would have been expected to live out their days in quiet worship, dressed only in white, with their very presence being considered inauspicious for all religious festivities. (AP Photo /Manish Swarup, File)