Holi is a popular and significant Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of Colours, Love, and Spring.Additionally, the day signifies the triumph of good over evil,as it commemorates the victory of Vishnu as Narasimha over Hiranyakashipu. It's celebrated in welcoming of spring.
There is a also popular symbolic legend behind the festival. In his youth,Krishna despaired whether the fair-skinned Radha would like him because of his dark skin color.His mother Yasodha, tired of his desperation, asks him to approach Radha and ask her to colour his face in any colour she wanted. Ever since ,this playful colouring of Radha and Krishna's faces has been commemorated as Holi.So Holi diminishes all kind of discrimination as caste,color,gender and other inequalities.
Problem arises when people start manipulating the way of celebrations.Issues are like :-
Issues related to health ,environmental,behavioral and ethical impacts.
Health impacts are hazardous affect of using chemical based colors on skin or eyes.Environmental impacts are affect of degradation of water & soil quality of using colors.
Ethical impacts are down grade of ethical practices as consuming alcohol,drugs etc by youth or all ages.
A religious festival with good message should not be going in this direction.As soon as our youth will understand it we'll start preserving hindu culture as well as national ethics.
Happy Holi to everyone!
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