Many times when I don't have any good choice of spending holidays I move towards Chandigarh because of lot many reasons... A good city, lot of friends and lot many good reasons... The same thing happened this year during Holi vacations.. Few days back I was in Dharmshala and Palampur.. After having great fun at Holi Melas in himachal, I decided to celebrate the big day at Chandigarh... Here are some of the photographs of Holi day (20th March 2011).. Check out !!!
I had planned these vacations with Nikhil on Facebook and had lot many other plans, which remained PLANs only :) ... He was first one to come inside my room and spray color on me... I was sleeping at that time.. He came with a big gang and there was full plan to spend the whole day outside...
Next Person who came and started complaining about the fact that I didn't inform him about my presence in the city ! Puneet Verma, MD, Cybrain Solutions !!!
Holi is famous as Basant Utsav in rural India... It is one of the major festivals in India and is celebrated with extreme enthusiasm and joy, which can be explained in words...
Planning for the day started with some of the main pubs in Chadigarh and few specially organized rain dance parties around !!! Nikhil is already in dreams ... alas ! everything remained as dreams only... and all the plans changed...
Ashish with his friends who met at Sukhna Lake... so he smiled and ordered their official photographer to click some photographs :)
Some cool gang of boys who were carrying some agricultural equipments and utilizing them for celebrating wet Holi at Sukhna Lake in Chadigarh... Many of the folks in Chandigarh were riding Trackter with lot many folks loaded over it...
Holi is the special when few people not like take bath with water and use dry colors... Here is one of the gang-member who had Color bath on that day...
Nikhil, who was most irritated with worst snacks with single moult... On Holi, every eating place was full and there were loong waiting queues outside.. Waiters were asking for flat 50 Rs tip before placing order and it was a big thing if you got more than three plates of snacks (although everything was tasteless.. ) ... I don't know why people think that Piyakkars don't have sense of taste when they are 4 peg down...
Happy person, who is not eating anything... But how can he deny to take single peg on the special day of Holi...
Nikhil telling 10 advantages of liquor consumption during day time.. Ashish is listening carefully... Initially plan was to arrange bhang and we had some experts to prepare the special drink for special day of Holi... but no one had right sources to get it ...
Folks having camel ride after colobath of holi...
By looking at electrifying crowd in the city, I realized that lot of folks from Punjab and other places come to Chandigarh for celebrating colors on the special day of Holi...
How does it matter if they danced on a road-side or in a decent club... If clubs were full, why not utilize car speakers to have some thumkas on "Rang Barse Bheege T-Shirt Vaali, Rang Barse...." etc... This area was near Sukhna Lake and Rock Garden.. n very few people come towards this side.. but on the same lot many folks were coming here in their Trackters, BMWs and other Punjabi cars... After few minutes a police van came and Inspector uncle gave us nice speech which was not expected at all...
Some of the Indians need to go for their official duties but thats not the excuse to not take the holy color-bath...
Some girls playing Holi outside PGI, Chandigarh !!!
University areas in Chandigarh were most colorful but some of them didn't look like University students by looking at the color density on their body...
Now their minds started thinking something different.. what we call.. "Out of the Box Thinking".. Why not tear all the T-shirts.. I know that is completely non-sense but they initiated it and accomplished with 100% target-achievement... n I also lost my T-Shirt :( ... Is it important to do something weird while drunk? Well, I don't think so !
Holi is one of the major festival of India and is the most vibrant one... The joys of Holi knows no bound and sometimes that becomes a problem as well... The festival is celebrated across most of the states in India or rather across the globe... The festival is filled with so much fun that the very mention of the word 'Holi' draws smile and enthusiasm amongst the people... Holi also celebrates the arrival of Spring, a season of joy and hope...
There is a Sikh festival of Hola Mohalla... Hola takes place on the first of the lunar month of Chet which usually falls in March. By a tradition established by Guru Gobind Singh, Hola is the masculine form of the feminine sounding Holi. The word "Mohalla" is derived from the Arabic root hal (alighting, descending) and is a Punjabi word that implies an organized procession in the form of an army column. But unlike Holi, when people playfully sprinkle colored powder, dry or mixed in water, on each other, the Guru made Hola Mohalla an occasion for the Sikhs to demonstrate their martial skills in simulated battles.
What is remarkably same across the country is the spirit of Holi.... Fun, love and strength of relations marks this festival of colors... What more can be expected - when the people get a social sanction to get intoxicated on the bhang, open not just their hearts out but also their lungs. n no one is allowed to take offence.. 'Bura na mano Holi hai'
Time to go back home and why it's becoming so difficult to recall the items I need to take home.. Is it Holi effect or something else :)
Every place is colored now ...
Holi is one of the oldest festivals of India... There are many interesting stories associated with Holi festival's origin as one moves across the different states from North to South and East to West... Mythology plays a very important part in narrating the festival of Holi as it happens with most of the festivals of India... The most popular stories of Holi origin relates to 'Holika Dahan' and Legend of Radha-Krishan...
There is nothing right or wrong but its always advisable to play safe on these festivals ... Festivals are to enjoy and not to take risks for fun...
Everything is about to finish or already finished... Its time to move towards Mohali and play Holi with other friends who are busy with their families at home !!!
Who is he? We don't recognize him... People doesn't look like this on the special day of Holi....
Punjabanan on University gedi on the special day of colors.. Holi... btw, all the clubs had free opening for girls and boys had to pay 1500+ rs... which was only for entry !
After seeing this photograph, I think you can understand why entry is so high for boys as compared to free-entry for girls.. Economics again.. demand-Supply funda :)
favorite bike of punjabis !!! btw, boys who were riding other bikes made sure the noisy holi without silencers..
For children, Holi starts one week before as they have to do lot of sopping which includes pichkaris, dry color, color-sprays and color=powder to mix with water.. n how can I forget balloons to target people walking on the road...
Even aunties of the colony are busy in playing with balloons... Holi Hai !!!
Let's eat something... why not ice-cream..
Another photograph of Cybrain friends who were roaming around Sukhna Lake to enjoy th day of colors - Holi...
Foreign students of Punjab University enjoying Holi... btw Chandigarh is one of the safest cities of India and local administration make sure that no one compromise with security and have fun in parallel...
Why can't cars enjoy this festival.. Holi Hai !!!
Liquor prices increase on that particular day, so its always advised to arrange all such stuff before time...
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He had to go to office as Jaspal Bhatti was busiest person on that day !!!
Temples are beautifully decorated at the time of Holi and many groups organize various programs on last night... Idol of Radha is placed on swings and devotees turn the swings singing devotional Holi songs and its been long time that I have seen this happening around... For new generation, its a best time of reunion...
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