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Holi celebrated with fun, frolic; 3 die in mishaps
Wednesday March 27, 2013 10:10:47 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
festival of colours Holi was celebrated across India with
enthusiasm and bonhomie even as three people lost their lives in
Andhra Pradesh.
In the national capital, revellers were soaked in a riot of
colours as they smeared 'gulal' (coloured powder) on each other,
distributed sweets and danced to loud music.
While youngsters armed with 'pichkaris' (water guns) and balloons
filled with coloured water sprayed each other as well as passersby,
elders preferred to smear one another with gulal as they hugged
each other and wished 'Holi Mubarak'.
"My brother and me were up till late last night and filled over
100 balloons with coloured water. Since morning, we have been
targeting people with them," said 15-year-old Astha Sharma from
Patel Nagar in west Delhi.
Bands of youngsters drenched in blue, green, pink, red and yellow
could be seen roaming Delhi streets with colours, balloons and
pichkaris as they searched for unwary people.
Many visited temples and prayed to Lord Krishna.
In the country's business hub Mumbai, the city and suburbs erupted
in colours as thousands poured out of their houses and building
complexes since morning to play Rang Panchami (Holi).
Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Mumbai Police and film and
television stars urged people to play a safe Holi.
In southern state Andhra Pradesh, Holi was celebrated with
traditional fanfare and gaiety. Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan and
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy led the celebrations.
However, the festivities were marred with the death of three
people in separate incidents across Andhra Pradesh.
A youth drowned in a well in in Hyderabad, while a six-year-old
boy drowned in a water tank in Nalgonda district. Another youth,
playing Holi, was killed after a truck knocked him down in Guntur
district.
In West Bengal capital Kolkata, 'Dol Yatra' as Holi is called
there, was celebrated with traditional fervour with songs, dances
and prayers.
Thousands including overseas Indians assembled at Santiniketan,
about 165 km from the state capital, where Nobel laureate
Rabindranath Tagore re-introduced Holi as 'Vasanta Utsav' (Spring
fest) in his Visva-Bharati university.
In Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar played Holi with Janata Dal-United
workers and the public and took pot-shots at Rashtriya Janata Dal
leader Lalu Prasad.
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