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Once a year, around late February or early March, India holds an interesting festival that is know as the Holi Hai festival, or the Festival of Colours.  This festival was traced back to the Hindu roots and it is celebrated to get people to notice and reinforce the triumph of ‘good' over ‘bad'. 

The morning of the festival, you might find many people plundering through stores buying powder.  Yes they buy powder because on the nearby streets is where the festival begins.  Townsfolk make their way to the active streets and fling powder at anyone they desire!  They grab handfuls and handfuls of powder and hurl it at their friends, family, and even people they don't know!  This festival is very fun for everyone, not just the kids.  This festival is a way for the Indian culture to bridge their social gap between the lower ends of the cast to the upper end.  An author from Cliff says,

"If you can imagine a holiday that combines Thanksgiving, Carnival and Valentine's Day with the colors of Easter - but where people get colored instead of eggs - you have some idea of why this holiday is so eagerly awaited."

                                                        Holi Hai!

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