:: 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.

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

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

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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.


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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.

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

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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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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.

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Hindu worshippers, splattered with colors, pray at the Dauji Temple in Dauji, 113 miles south of New Delhi 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