Holi, the festival of colours, is one of the most rejoiced and vibrant festivals of India. On the full moon day of Phalgun (March), entire India, celebrate Holi with absolute zeal and fervour, to welcome the beautiful spring season. People wear white clothes, youngsters take blessings from elders and throw Gulal and wet colours through jet sprays and water guns and water balloons on each other, in merriment. Several traditional sweets like gujiya and matthi and beverages like thandai and bhang are prepared in households. Mythologically it is believed that, holi is celebrated to mark the victory of Prince Prahlad- emblem of good, over Holika which symbolises bad or devil. On the eve of Holi, people celebrate holika dahan. Huge bonfires are set up and people dance and sing around the same, to rejoice the triumph of good over bad.
