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 ...

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 ...

In the Midwest, late March is marked by bare trees, melting lakes, mud puddles and slush all begging to be punctuated by a bud on a tree or a sprig of grass. The Holi festival is ...

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 ...

In the Midwest, late March is marked by bare trees, melting lakes, mud puddles and slush, all begging to be punctuated by a bud on a tree or a sprig of grass. For Minnesotans ...