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HOLI ESSAY 4 (250 WORDS) 
Holi is a festival of colors celebrated every year on a full moon day in the month of March 
(or Falgun). It is also known as the festival of love, joy, happiness, unity, renewal and 
triumph. We celebrate holi with vibrant colours indicating joy, love and happiness to each 
other. Behind celebrating the holi festival there is a great reason, legends, beliefs and 
significance. 
A long ago, there was a king, Hiranyakashyap, his sister, Holika and son, Prahlad. Prahlad 
was a holy spirit and spiritually devoted to God however his father was keen to be 
worshipped by everyone including his own son as a God. But it was not accepted by the 
Prahlad and he continued worshipping God. His father was angry with him and planned to 
kill him by burning in the fire. He asked sister Holika to have Prahlad in her lap and sit in 

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the fire (as Holika was booned by the God to never get killed by the fire). Holika did so but 
unfortunately she died in the fire and Prahlad was saved by the Lord. This myth had 
originated the holi celebration. 
People fully enjoy this day by playing colors, meeting and hugging each other, eating tasty 
foods and other activities. People meet with their near and dear ones, friends, relatives, 
neighbours and apply abeer to their forehead which shows their happiness to each other. 
People welcome others at their door step with lots of eating things and colours. In this way, 
they pass their whole day with lots of fun and joy. 
HOLI ESSAY 5 (300 WORDS) 
Holi is a most favourite festival of all as it brings lots of joy and happiness. It is celebrated 
every year by the people of Hindu religion as a very important festival. It falls in the start of 
spring season generally in the month of March (or Falgun). Everyone wait for this festival 
with lots of courage and special preparations of how to celebrate it. 
There is a great story of Prahlad behind celebrating the holi. Once Prahlad (who was a great 
devotee of God) was tried to be killed by his own father as he denied to worship his own 
father in place of God. His aunt, Holika, sit in the fire by keeping him in her lap on the 
order of Prahlad‟s father but he was saved by the God as he was a true devote. And Holika 
burnt in the fire even after she was booned by the God to never get harmed by the fire. 
From that day, Hindu people start celebrating the festival of holi every year to remember 
the triumph of goodness over badness. 
A day before colourful holi, people burn a heap of woods and co-dung cakes in the night in 
the myth of burning Holika to remember that day. Some people follow the special ritual of 
burning the waste of sarson ubtan massage of each family member in the Holika in the 
myth that doing so would remove all the evil power from the house and the body and bring 
happiness and positive power to the home. 
In the next morning, people play with colours with their family members, relatives, friends 
and neighbours. Kids of the house enjoy this day by throwing colour filled balloons to each 
other or using pitchakri. Everyone go to the doors of other to meet, hug and apply abeer to 
the forehead showing their love and affection to each other. Special preparations are done 
for this day like arrangements of sweets, chips, namkeen, dahi bade, pani puri, papadi, etc. 

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