Worlds Best Holi Celebrations
With the blossom of spring, comes the eruption of colors across the world with Holi! Holi knows no boundaries and it’s a celebration partaken in across the world. People celebrate with family, friends, and new friends with colored powder, music, and light a bonfire called Holika to celebrate the victory of good over evil.
With the blossom of spring, comes the eruption of colors
across the world with Holi! Holi knows no boundaries and it’s a celebration
partaken in across the world. People celebrate with family, friends, and new
friends with colored powder, music, and light a bonfire called Holika to
celebrate the victory of good over evil.
Holi is about bringing everyone together in a
festival that generates brotherhood and the spread of harmony all around. Indians realize the importance of this and
other festivals, especially when they’re settled abroad away from their
cultural roots and home countries. Just like in India, people in other parts of
the world gather and exchange sweets and greetings. And of course, COLORS!
Holi Canada!
With a huge Indian population, Canada hosts
numbers of Holi celebrations. It was
celebrated recently when the parliamentarian complex of Canada for the first
time with assortments of members of the parliament joined the celebration. An
initiative of MP Chandra Arya, who hails originally from Karnataka, organized
the collaboration with the PM, Justin Trudeau, to give the people a message of
friendship and peace. Canada gets to
witness something new every year during the celebration of Holi!
Holi in the Rainbow Nation
Holi evenings in the Rainbow Nation of South
Africa are spent meeting family, friends, and exchanging greetings and sweet
treats. South Africans believe that Holi’s importance cannot be understated and
it is believed that Holi helps people to get closer, generating warmth in
relationships and even enemies turn into friends in the spirit of Holi. Indians
account for almost 1,000,000 in the country and due to the majority of the Hindu
population, a number of Hindu festivals are celebrated with great gusto.
A Kingdom United in Holi
The United Kingdom has a massive Hindu
contingent and they definitely do not miss out on the celebrations of Holi,
enjoying them to the absolute max. Indians are the 2nd largest
minority in the UK and they come out in full force when it’s time for Holi. The
British city of Leicester is well known for the excitement surrounding
Holi. Children love to use spray cans to
color each other, and Holi parades are carried out throughout the country.
Holi Down Under
Indians are prominent in Australia and Melbourne
gets lost beneath the wishy-washy miasmi and cloud of colorful powders. The
Victorian capital hosts scores of Holi celebrations. Most people on the day of
Holi dress themselves in traditional clothes and attend color parties where
friends and family hurl colored power at each other. The festival also allows for
Australians to gain a deeper understanding of the Hindu religion, giving them a
warm spring welcome and a chance to goodbye to the dark winter.
United States of Holi
Indians and pretty much everyone love their Holi
in America! Music programs, and Holi Meets are organized by different societies
and different religious organizations to help people celebrate. The celebrations
help the new generation identify with their cultural roots and also help them
learn the significance of celebrating the festivals and know the legends
associated with them. The City of Angels,
Los Angeles, is particularly festive during Holi festivals with massive parties
and playing with colors.
Gujarati Society of Southern California is host to one
at Whittier Narrows on March 24, 2019 and looks to be one of the best in the
country! It almost looks like LA’s a part of India in the middle of it. Dance
performances, fashion shows, and music concerts all make Holi a United affair
in the States!