Holi

A COLOURFUL HOLY TO ALL

Holi is a religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus as a festival of colours. It is primarily observed in our country and Nepal. It is also observed by the minority Hindus in Bangladesh and Pakistan as well in countries with large populations following Hinduism, such as Suriname, Malaysia, Guyana, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Grait Britain, America, Mauritius, and Fiji.Holi is also known as Phagwah, Festival of Colours or Dola Yatra in our native state, Odisha. Holi is of particular significance in the Brij region, which includes locations traditionally connected to Bhagaban Shri Krishna, such as Mathura, Vrindaban and Nandagaon, which become tourist destinations during the season of Holi. As per the Hindu calendar, Holi is celebrated on the Phalgun Purnima which comes in month of February or March Every year; thousands of Hindus participate in the festival Holi. The festival has many purposes. First and foremost, it celebrates the beginning of the new season, spring. Originally, it was a festival that commemorated good harvests and the fertile land. Undoubtedly, people of our state live mostly on agriculture. We apprehend a ghastly hit on our bread and butter from Multi-national monsters’ quarters, thanks to our governmental machineries. BRPL and Essar like trespassers are at the best of their effort to dehydrate our farming fields. These thugs plan to kill our only irrigation source, Baitarani on the pretext of industrialization. In Mumbai, my party, the Bharatiya Janata Party requested the Holi celebrators to cut 50% from water, used on account of the fiesta. So, how can we be blind here to the government sponsored company barbarism ? Anyway, I could draw National Green Tribunal’s attention and make them stop these MNCs from drying up Baitarani. But, the administration here is in hand in gloves with the moneyed corporate houses. Said oversea companies seem to reach their ill-designed goal appeasing handful politicians and bureaucrats at the cost of our lives and livelihood rendering the Courts of law to wilderness! Hindus believe it is a time of enjoying spring’s abundant colors and saying farewell to winter. It also has a religious purpose, commemorating events present in Hindu mythology. I call upon my fellow people to resist these foreign enemies combinedly so that the flow of nectar from our mother Baitarani’s breast may keep continuing for us and the posterity.