Holi – part 1
Posted in India on 03/21/2009 05:17 am by James
Last weekend was Holi, an important – and fun – festival in the Hindu calendar.
In Nashik, this festival of colour ended on Sunday. The basic protocol is that everyone is fair game: if you leave your house you can expect to be paint-bombed by perfect strangers.
The previously upstanding members of the local community, together with their spouses and children that co-habit our apartment block, suddenly became master paint throwers in the carpark.
As you can see, after his initial shock of turning completely green, Jex quickly got into the guerrilla nature of the game.
Basically there are no rules – except to see which gender can get the other the wettest and most colourful.
