8 Fascinating Reasons Why You Need To Celebrate Indian Holi

Holi, the world-famous festival of colours, is a sight you will never forget. Bright clouds of powder dye thrown into the air, the cheering of the crowd, loud music, dancing, laughing, water guns with coloured water – this is what you’ll see during Holi wherever you go! In fact, Holi became so popular that now it’s celebrated far outside of Nepal and India, where it originated. It’s so fun and cheerful that anyone can relate to it no matter what their background is!

It’s about equality
During this festival everyone comes together as one, forgetting their differences, religions, races, castes, and social statuses. By putting colours on each other’s faces people celebrate acceptance and unity. Foreigners mingle with the locals and no one can tell who is who because of the dye on their faces!

Yummy food
During Holi Indian families prepare a mouth-watering sweet called gujiya. It’s a stuffed dumpling made with thin dough, filled with all kinds of yummies like coconut, cashews, pistachios, cardamom, and raisins. The recipes vary greatly all across India.

Good vs. Evil
One of the reasons people celebrate Holi is the triumph of good over evil. According to the legend there was an evil king Hiranyakashyap who made everyone worship him like a god. Nevertheless, his son Prahlad was the only one who didn’t want to do that as he knew it was wrong. Instead, he fervently worshipped Lord Vishnu, making the king so angry that he decided to kill the boy. To do that he asked his demon sister Holika, who was immune to fire, to sit on a pyre with a boy, thus burning him alive. She did that, but Prahlad prayed to Lord Vishnu and his prayers were answered. The boy lived, but demon king’s sister Holika burned on a pyre.