In India, spring officially begins with the festival of Holi. The date is not fixed, but follows the lunar calendar. It's celebrated on the full moon day, the poornima, closest to the spring equinox – ...

(Reuters Health) - An ancient Hindu tradition may carry new health risks, researchers warn, because modern versions of colored powder and liquids thrown during the Holi festival contain toxic agents ...

The top of Sriha Vallapragada’s long, white dress was covered with patches of green and splashes of pink dye and streaks of orange, purple and blue decorated her face and hair. The 13-year-old was one ...

Holi is known as the Festival of Colors. It’s an important holiday for Indian and South Asian communities, celebrated by throwing colored powder, lighting bonfires and having water gun fights. Holi is ...

Hundreds of people danced to upbeat music on the lawn of Bethany’s Parivar Park Saturday afternoon for a Holi festival that sprawled across the grass, as more than 1,000 people celebrated throughout ...

Puffs of colored powder filled the air at Girard Park on Saturday, celebrating the end of winter and the coming of spring in the annual Lafayette Holi Festival. Event goers caught in the middle of ...

Indian revelers marked Holi, the annual Spring festival of color with joyous celebrations across the country and amongst communities in the diaspora. In addition to certain Hindu ceremonial rites, the ...

Streets across the Indian subcontinent became playgrounds on Thursday as revelers threw colored powder and water at each other to celebrate Holi, also known as the Hindu festival of color. Holi is ...

It sounds like such a great idea: Get a bunch of people together and celebrate love by hurling colored powder in the air. Like Christmas and Dyngus Day, the Hindu festival of Holi is just good fun and ...

Every year millions of people in India, Nepal, and around the world celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi under clouds of technicolored powder. The raucous Festival of Colors — a celebration of the ...

In India, spring officially begins with the festival of Holi. The date is not fixed, but follows the lunar calendar. It's celebrated on the full moon day, the poornima, closest to the spring equinox – ...