Hyderabad: Hyderabadis soaked in the many colours of Holi and indulged in revelry through the twenty-four hours on Tuesday. Glimpses of festivity were on filled to satisfaction with food exhibit as of all how long something has existed groups thronged onto the streets to smear each not the same with gulal. Few children, with their loaded pichkaris, were seen running across little lanes.
Meanwhile, Hyderabad, which has an amalgamation of unlike cultures and religions celebrated the with renewed vigour and lively interest. Few communities were seen celebrating festivals of colours in the path, and also indefinite but relatively small number communities have got planned to celebrate Holi on Wednesday. Apart from the Holi parties that were organized at the IT corridor witnessed, larger numbers of youngsters were seen jubilating at the beats of peppy .
Dilip Kumar Pansari, Vice President, Agarwal Samaj, Telangana State, said “Our Samaj has been playing Holi for the past 15 years in the city by following all the traditional customs. This year after observing Thandi Puja (a stick will be placed in the ground the previous day and in the early morning we observed Holika Dahan then immediately smeared colours among each other. This event continued till late afternoon, and later we community members gathered and organized a few cultural activities along with various delicious delicacies.”
Holi teaches us the of equality and leaving their grudges behind and focusing on spreading hue and happiness, and this we taste to implement in our twenty-four hours to twenty-four hours lives, he added. Ahilya Mishra, part of a social group of Bihari Community, said, “This year as there is a little confusion of dates, we will be celebrating Holi on Wednesday and the previous day is called a choti holi , where we offer prayers to lord Krishna, and the next day we splash colours upon each other by greeting them.
For the past 53 years, our community has been celebrating the festival with a lot of enthusiasm using organic colours made of flowers and vegetables. In the evening we will be organizing Hasya Kavi Sammelan (Comedy Poet Convention).” “Recently, I moved to the city from Maharashtra and was wondering that this year I will be missing the festive environment, but I was wrong, I could spend wonderful time with my friends,” said Anjali, IT worker. “This year we had a blast, the festive mood gripped the entire day, along with my friends visiting one of the Holi parties,” stated Monika, living in a particular place of Kukatpally.
