Colourful Holi celebrations
People in Leicester are celebrating a Hindu festival marking the start of Spring by covering friends with coloured powder. The Holi festival represents the end of the gloomy winter and the liveliness of the Spring season.
The tradition of covering one another in paint to celebrate spring
The Hindu festival Holi marks the end of winter and the beginning of Spring and as this video shows, one of the colourful ways of celebrating this is to cover one another in paint.
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