Holi has its origins in Hindu mythology and lore and celebrates the divine love between ... Children, perched on rooftops and balconies, flung water balloons filled with pigments at passers by. Groups ...

The devotees celebrate the festival in temples by pouring water or milk over the Shiva linga, a stone sculpture symbolic of Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. Some also observe a fast during the ...

Here in Uttar Pradesh, the women of Nandgaon (home of Hindu god Krishna) attack the men from ... throwing powdered dye with abandon, spraying water, and flooding the streets for raucous fun.

Millions of people in South Asia are celebrating Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, by smearing each other with brightly ...