Holi is the Hindu spring festival of colours. In Barsana and Nandagaon,people celebrate a variation called ‘Lathmar Holi’, which means ‘Holi in which people hit with sticks’. During the first day of the festival, and the women of Barsana,the birth location of Hindu Goddess Radha, beat the men from Nandagaon, and the hometown of Hindu God Krishna,with wooden sticks in response to their efforts to drench them with coloursContinue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk