With the throwing of colored powder and water balloons, Holi has become known as India’s most vivid, joyous festival. International travel groups selling tours to the country often place photos of ...

Holi is known as the Festival of Colors. It’s an important holiday for Indian and South Asian communities, celebrated by throwing colored powder, lighting bonfires and having water gun fights. Holi is ...

It sounds like such a great idea: Get a bunch of people together and celebrate love by hurling colored powder in the air. Like Christmas and Dyngus Day, the Hindu festival of Holi is just good fun and ...

In India, spring officially begins with the festival of Holi. The date is not fixed, but follows the lunar calendar. It's celebrated on the full moon day, the poornima, closest to the spring equinox – ...

On Friday, Google unveiled a festive Google Doodle in honor of Holi, a Hindu festival that marks the end of winter. Also known as the “festival of colors,” Holi is primarily observed in South Asia but ...

The Vedic calendar indicates that the month of Phalguna will commence on February 2nd. This month holds great importance both ...

It's the bold image of India most often seen in ad campaigns, films and music videos. People coming together from all walks of life to sing, dance and splash their friends and family with colored ...

Holi is a holiday celebrated by millions of Hindus around the world, from India and Pakistan to Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States. It falls on the purnima, or full-moon day of Phalguna, which ...

Yellow is one of the most popular colors thrown during Holi. Called gulal, the fine powder is made from a mixture of starch and dyes. One factory in India, Radha Kishan Color World, produces 2,000 ...

Known as the "festival of colors," Holi is an Indian and Nepali spring festival celebrated around the world to bring life, laughter and joy to all who participate. The festival signifies victory of ...

Streets across the Indian subcontinent became playgrounds on Thursday as revelers threw colored powder and water at each other to celebrate Holi, also known as the Hindu festival of color. Holi is ...

More than 2,000 UNC students celebrated Holi, the Indian festival of colors, at Hooker Fields in Chapel Hill, N.C. on Friday, April 11, 2014. Al Drago newsobserver.com Holi is known as the Festival of ...