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Holi Festival Begins| बुरा न मानो होली है | Hindu community all over world celebrating Holi| Bura na Mano Holi hy| Holi and Pakistani Hindu Community

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Today is 10th of March and whole Hindu Community all over the world is celebrating the HOLI festival .This is the religious festival of Hindus all over the world mainly most of the Hindu community is in India so major gatherings are seen there.

This event is also celebrated in Nepal, Trindadand Tobago,South Africa and many other countries where Hindu community lives ,it also becoming popular in other religions and non Hindus also celebrate this event as a good will gesture for their Hindu brother's .
Holi celebrations start on the night before Holi with a Holika Dahan where people gather, perform religious rituals in front of the bonfire, and pray that their internal evil be destroyed the way Holika ,sister of the demon king Hiranyakashipu, was killed in the fire. The next morning is celebrated as Rangwali Holi – a free-for-all festival of colours, where people smear each other with colours and drench each other. Water guns and water-filled balloons are also used to play and colour each other. Anyone and everyone is fair game, friend or stranger, rich or poor, man or woman, children, and elders. The frolic and fight with colours occur in the open streets, open parks, outside temples and buildings. Groups carry drums and other musical instruments, go from place to place, sing and dance. People visit family, friends and foes to throw coloured powders on each other, laugh and gossip, then share Holi delicacies, food and drinks.Some customary drinks include Bhang (made from  Cannabis) , which is intoxicating. In the evening, after sobering up, people dress up and visit friends and family.
The Holi festival has a cultural significance among various Hindu traditions of the Indian subcontinent. It is the festive day to end and rid oneself of past errors, to end conflicts by meeting others, a day to forget and forgive. People pay or forgive debts, as well as deal anew with those in their lives.
Holi also marks the start of spring, for many the start of the new year, an occasion for people to enjoy the changing seasons and make new friends.
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