Holi is literally one of the most colourful festivals in the world. Hindus celebrate this festival in March when wheat is harvested. Holi commemorates spring and the mythological stories of lord Krishna and king Prahlad. In Hindu legend during Holi Krishna used to cover Radha and her friends with coloured water and stole off their clothes while they bathed. In the other story, Prahlad, the son of the king, refused his father’s demand that he worship him rather than God. Prahlad was saved twice from death by god, first when the king ordered him to be killed, and again, when the king’s evil sister, Holika, led Prahlad into a huge bonfire In the remembrance of that the Hindis in the morning of the holi put on their all their old clothes and douse each other with coloured powders. This is the one the day of the year parents encourage their children to get filthy.
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