:: Holi Hindu festival ::

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A boy smiles as his face is smeared with colored powder during Holi festivities in Mumbai, India, Friday, March 18, 2011.

An Indian girl gets her face smeared with colored powder during Holi festivities in Hyderabad, India, Friday, March 18, 2011.

A man gets his face smeared with colored powder during holi festivities in Allahabad, India, Friday, March 18, 2011.

Students of Rabindra Bharati University, faces smeared with colored powder, dance during Holi festival celebrations at the residence of India's first Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in Calcutta, India, Wednesday, March 16, 2011.

Students of Rabindra Bharati University smear the face of a fellow student with colored powder during Holi festival celebrations at the residence of India's first Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in Calcutta, India, Wednesday, March 16, 2011.

Indian villagers smear themselves with colors as they celebrate Holi festival in Nandgaon, near Mathura, India, Tuesday, March 15, 2011.​

 

[hansa1018]

nice pix.... i like dz festival.........

 

[mawella]

niyama gana ;P

 

[samila224]

niyama gana ;P

 

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A dousing of various colors has turned a Holi celebrant brown at the Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan on March 21.​

 

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Hindu devotees have painted much of the town of Vrindavan -- and themselves -- red on March 21. The town, in Uttar Pradesh, India, is one of the cultural and religious centers of Hinduism and the site where one of the central figures of the religion, Krishna, grew up, according to tradition.​

 

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An Indian vendor arranges the arsenal for celebrants of Holi -- colored powder -- at his shop in Hyderabad, India, on March 18.​

 

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Colored powder covers the face of a boy in Mumbai on March 18. The main day of the holiday of Holi was Sunday, March 20, but participants flung colors at one another throughout the weekend and on Monday​

 

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Indian villagers chat in the village of Jaav, 113 miles south of New Delhi, March 21.

Hindu worshippers, splattered with colors, pray at the Dauji Temple in Dauji, 113 miles south of New Delhi on March 21. ​

 

[Sasith90]

high quality camera machan

 

[samila224]

high quality camera machan

yaaa...! bt mage nemei...

 

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When they are not sloshing one another with colors, celebrants in Vrindavan spend much of their time in Banke Bihari, which is considered the favorite temple of the Hindu figure, Lord Krishna.​

 

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Hindu devotees gather under a powdery cloud near the Banke Bihari Temple in Vrindavan on March 21.​

 

[ac2000]

thanks for sharing

 

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A Hindu devotee prays at the Banke Bihari Temple in Vrindavan on March 19.​

 

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The colors of India are captured both in traditional dress and in Holi-enfused dress near the the Banke Bihari Temple in Vrindavan on March 21.​

 

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Red dye saturates Indian women at the Dauji Temple in Dauji, 113 miles south of New Delhi, on March 21. The Dauji Temple festivities are known for a ritual in which the women playfully hit men with whips made of cloth as men throw buckets of water with dye​

 

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Hindu devotees play with colored powders during Holi celebrations at the Banke Bihari Temple on March 21 in Vrindavan​

 

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