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 ...

Holi is a two-day festival, it is on the second day that people gather to throw brightly coloured powder on each other. The coloured powder is called gulal. It is believed that this tradition came ...

and the following day — Purnima or Rangwali Holi — is when the full Festival of Colors calls for throwing pigmented powder, spraying water guns, and dancing in the streets. The color festival ...

During Holi, celebrants throw colored powder called gulal in the air and at each other as part of the festivities. Eleanor Yant, 12, of Nashville chased after her two friends, laughing and ...

Holi is celebrated in the Indian month of Phalgun (March). Originally an agricultural festival, it ushers in the arrival of spring, the season of hope and joy. People imitate the colors of spring by ...

But it still doesn’t explain the why people willingly get coated from head to toe in colourful powder on the second day of Holi. For that, we need to turn to another legend. The Hindu god ...