{"id":73816,"date":"2014-03-12T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T04:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=73816"},"modified":"2014-03-12T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T04:49:07","slug":"painting-the-town-red-and-green-and-purple-exquisite-pictures-from-holi-the-worlds-most-colourful-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=73816","title":{"rendered":"Painting the town red (and green, and purple): Exquisite pictures from Holi, the world&#8217;s most colourful festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Nandgaon-india.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-73811\" alt=\"\u0540\u0578\u056c\u056b \u0561\u0574\u0565\u0576\u0561\u0574\u0575\u0561 \u0583\u0561\u057c\u0561\u057f\u0578\u0576\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Nandgaon-india.jpg\" width=\"964\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Nandgaon-india.jpg 964w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Nandgaon-india-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Nandgaon-india-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These amazing photographs give a whole new meaning to the phrase \u2018painting the town red\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Hindu men and women have welcomed the beginning of spring by hurling coloured powder at one another during the annual Holi festival in India.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrations start with a bonfire where people gather, sing and dance \u2013 before participants unleash a free-for-all style powder assault on anyone and everyone in the designated colour zones.<\/p>\n<p>Some use the powder dry, throwing it around and leaving a trail of colour in their wake.<\/p>\n<p>Others mix the powder with water to decorate their friends and family members, as well as people they have never met.<\/p>\n<p>When the colour bombing is over in Nandgoan, Hindu devotees covered head to toe in in powder pray as they arrive at the Nandagram Temple.<\/p>\n<p>The festival, which started as a chance to meet others, play, laugh and repair relationships, is now one of the biggest in the world.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years it has spread among non-Hindus in many parts of south-east Asia, as well as to parts of Europe, North America and Australia.<br \/>\nHoli is held every year before spring on the last full moon day of the lunar month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; These amazing photographs give a whole new meaning to the phrase \u2018painting the town&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":73811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[8085],"class_list":["post-73816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-holi","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}