2016 / People / Culture (Non-Pro)

Holi Barsana

  • Photographer
    Shankar Subramanian

A colorful festival of India -Holi - a free-for-all carnival of colours,]where participants play, chase and colour each other with dry powder and coloured water, with some carrying water guns and coloured water-filled balloons for their water fight. Anyone and everyone is fair game, friend or stranger, rich or poor, man or woman, children and elders. The frolic and fight with colours occurs in the open streets, open parks, outside temples and buildings. Groups carry drums and other musical instruments, go from place to place, sing and dance.