Backstory Of Holi By Shubho Halder

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Backstory Of Holi

By Shubho Halder


 Hey, World. What's up !! How are you this season? 

With the arrival of spring, there come so many festivals to cheer us up. It seems like all the coldness of Winter has finished and the warmth of summer is ready to welcome us. It's the most beautiful time of the year, or I would rather say lively. It's time to let the light in and let ourselves grow out of the bubble that we were hibernating in. OK! that was a weird way of explaining things, excuse my description skills. What I mean is it's the positive time of the year and it kind of start with the festival of colors.

In India, it is called Holi. Now before going into further details let me give you a bit of backstory about this festival. 

Holi is a spring festival that brings us closer, heals damaged relationships and spreads joy and laughter. This festival also signifies the victory of good over evil although the festival of Holi is best known today for its party atmosphere, this festival also has some religious significance.

According to old Indian legends, there once lived a powerful evil king named "Hiranyakashyap". He had a special blessing from Lord Bhrama which lead him to be a narcissistic and cruel person. Due to this, he commanded all his countrymen to worship him as their "god". However, his very own son Prahlada refused to do so because he was a devotee of Lord Vishnu.

Thus Hiranyakashyap asks his sister Holika for her help to get rid of Prahlada as Holika had a blessing that made her immune to fire. She set herself into the fire with Prahlada on her lap hoping that her nephew would be burnt alive. But Prahlada's devotion to Lord Vishnu, however, saved him and the evil Holika was burnt to death instead marking the victory of good over evil.

Holi is also associated with the divine dance known as Rasleela. It is a dance staged by Lord Krishna for his devotees of Vrindavana commonly known as Gopis.
There are other few legends associated with this festival, and they all depict triumph of good over evil lending a philosophy to the festival.
Traditionally, the colors were made from turmeric, sandalwood paste, neem extract, flowers, and leaves.
So, I think that was enough for a good backstory about this festival of colors. Hope, I had educated you all about this exotic festival.


And, like always our teachers had given us assignments to make posts on Holi. I think that was good enough for us to let our creativity out. Our teachers are quite great in this. They know how to take out the creative gene, and that's what I love about them. And I made these posts, hopefully, it satiated my teacher's expectations.

So, now it's time for me to "sign out from Digital Decatron. Till then guys stay happy, take care of each other and wish you a very happy Holi.Make sure to follow us on Facebook. 

Shubho Halder

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