Holi festival celebrations in India and around the world – in pictures
Hindu spring festival sees millions hurl coloured powder at each other in a kaleidoscopic celebration of the end of winter and the triumph of good over evil
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Women dance and play with colourful powders during the Holi festival to mark the beginning of spring season in Howrah, India.
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Women mark the festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh, at the Dhakeshwari national temple.
Photograph: Sony Ramany/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
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Revellers smeared with ‘gulal’ or coloured powder, celebrate Holi in Pushkar.
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Celebrations in Mumbai. Bonfires are also lit to destroy the bad so that good can triumph.
Photograph: Divyakant Solanki/EPA
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A couple daub each other with coloured powder at the Dhakeshwari national temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Photograph: Sony Ramany/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
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Holi festivities in Kolkata. Many schools traditionally close and feasts are held during the festival.
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Celebration in Kolkata, India, where festivities can last for a week.
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Holi festival celebrations in the Hague, Netherlands. It is also sometimes called the ‘festival of love’, a time when people seek to forgive others and repair damaged relationships.
Photograph: Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
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