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Indian students apply color on each other as they celebrate the Holi festival in Calcutta, India on March 16, 2011. The Rabindra Bharati University organized the festival of colors at their campus. Holi is an ancient Indian festival to mark the arrival of spring. This year, the main Holi celebrations will take place on March 19.
Holi is a spring festival celebrated by Hindus and Sikhs at the end of the winter season. It is primarily observed in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The festival features people throwing colored powder and colored water at each other. The most celebrated festivals have become tourist destinations, and those celebrations last up to 16 days.
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Indian students celebrate the Holi festival in Calcutta, India.
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Were the words to go with the pictures written by 6 year olds ? I ask because if the words are 'acceptable' would it also be acceptable if I showed a picture of some people celebrating passover and then included some words underneath which state that 'passover is a festival celebrated by Christians, Jews and Muslims' ? So....bearing in mind the fact that not only do Sikhs NOT celebrate any festival called 'Holi' they are actually strictly forbidden by their religion from doing so as their founder saw it as a festival way below their level and instructed Sikhs to instead celebrate something called Holla Mohalla whereby they do excercises and martial rather than drink and be merry. The absolute complete opposite of what the words to the pictures above say.
The reason I've felt I must write this is because I now no longer feel I can trust anything I read here. I used to read things and thought i was learning something new but i now have a niggling doubt that pretty much everything said is said relying on the ignorance of the reader to not know any better.