India is a land of festivals.Here, a festival presents a glimpse of different traditions and customs. After the winter season, arrives the spring season when everywhere we can see blossoming of colorful flowers, indicating the arrival of Holi. Holi is a festival of natural beauty. It is celebrated every year on the Purnima of Phalgun month. Just a night before Holi, a bonfire is burnt(Holika Dahan). And, on the next day morning itself, people start playing with colors. In 2011, Holi, the festival of colors will be celebrated on 20th March. The festival of Holi is also known as Dulhandi.

Holi is a festival of colors and fun. This festival is celebrated 40 days before the spring season. Generally, we see the festival of Holi is celebrated as a symbol of unity, leaving behind all sorts of hatred. On this day, people mix color in water and drench each other. Using natural colors made by mixing of sandalwood, saffron and rose, also essence etc. with water of Tesu flower, increases the beauty of this festival.

In the olden days, Pichkaria where used to play Holi, but, the wheel of time turned and things changed. Today only small children use Pichkaries. Every age group use different resources and ways to play Holi. Where, on one hand, upper class people use perfume, sandalwood, good quality Gulal, on the other hand, some other people celebrate Holi with water, mud, and at times with dirt.

The festival of holi is celebrated by children, young, adults, men and women, without any discrimination or inequality, putting colors on each other. The crowd gathers up to wish Dulhandi in the morning itself. On the day of Holi, familiar faces also hide in the colors and can’t be identified and recognised. In order to give respect to elders, Gulal is applied on their feet and blessings are taken. Same age group people apply Gulal to each others forehead and wish Holi with a hug. The small ones are wished by applying Gulal with affection.

Holi, in the Indian society is a mirror of expression of public emotions. Here, festivals like Holi, play an important role in joining family to the society. Today, to keep the societies combined with each other, festivals like Holi have become the need. In the run of modernity, the essence of humanity has vanished from the cities. In villages, where on a person’s illness, all villagers come to ask about him, where problem of one person is taken as problem of whole village. On the contrast, in cities, it take years to know who lives in the flat nearby yours. Considering all the facts, indicate that the requirement of Holi is more for cities, to break this silence of there lives.