Why do We Celebrate the Holi Festival?

Why is Holi Celebrated?

Holi festival has a religious story associated with it due to which the festival of colours is celebrated. There was a king named Hiranyakashipu. He had a son named Prahlada as a God Vishnu devotee. In spite of several threats from Hiranyakashipu, Prahalada continued to offer prayers to God Vishnu. This annoyed Hiranyakashipu. He tried several ways to kill his own son, but all the efforts were in vain. Finally, he decided that his son will sit in the lap of his sister Holika and will burn him. Holika had a boon that she could not get burned by fire. Prahalada accepted the orders of his father without any hesitation, as he had a firm belief in God Vishnu. Prahalada survived the fire unharmed and the lady with the boon burnt to death in the fire. This is why we celebrate Holi. Apart from this, another reason for celebrating the Holi festival is that it is also the beginning of the new season. This is the season of spring that starts from the day of Holi. Holi is celebrated to welcome the new season of spring. The craze of the Holi festival is increasing day by day in India. In most regions, it’s being celebrated as one of the biggest festivals in India. Holi is being celebrated in India as in the memory of the year those have passed by and welcoming the coming year.

How Holi Is celebrated?

Holi is being treated as one of the occasions on which people lose themselves free and enjoy the hidden crazy self. Yet another way to celebrate the occasion is to have bhang. People tend to drink bhang and set them loose to the tunes of the Holi celebrations.

Kids enjoy the festival the most as they fill the water balloons and try to aim at each other with those. Elders too enjoy the festival of colours as they too colour each other with Gulal. Sweets play an important part in the festival as ladies engage themselves in preparing Gujia for the family members. The form of sweets change according to the tradition and the beliefs in all the states across the country for example Malpua, Puran Poli, Gujia, and Dahi Badas are the main sweets for the occasion.

In some of the states, this festival is celebrated in a unique manner as they have a tradition of breaking a pot full of buttermilk. There is a huge prize for the one who breaks the pot of buttermilk. A human pyramid is made which decrease as the level of the human pyramid grows.

After an eventful day, people then exchange sweets with friends. This is the time when the festival is celebrated in a more dignified way. This was the traditional way to celebrate the festival, but as technology has taken over the way of celebrating the festival has also changed the young generation of India to celebrate the festival of colours in a different manner. There might be several ways to celebrate the festival but the feeling behind each and every way remains the same as they all want to spread love and welcome the coming year ahead.

When is Holi 2021?

Holi in 2021 will start on Sunday, the 28th of March and will continue for 2 days until Monday, the 29th of March.