Happiness measured with colours & food around...
Holi is round the corner, people buying sweets & some of
them buying ingredients to prepare Gujiya & other snacks to be prepared on
the eve of Holi for family & friends.
Even I was waiting for Holi impatiently, not only for colours,
but to be frank most importantly for the mouth-watering Indian delicacies - Gujiya
& Samosa my mom prepares for this festival.
There is a blur picture of my childhood days when I and my
bro used to enjoy this festival of colours with water balloons sprawled on our
terrace, and making every next passer by our target of balloon held in our
hands. We were so naughty that we couldn’t wait for the dad till he comes up
with new colours so that stock never ends. Festivals are still same but the
quality of colours have really changed a lot. Now, manufacturers uses different
chemicals which harm your skin, hair, eyes, fatally. There was no fear and now you dread of skin irritations from colours, or hair
problems with those chemicals. Now, if
you happen to meet me on Holi this time, I would be all oil bathed from top to
toe so that I don’t have to spend ages rubbing and scraping that Ziddi colour
off my body.
In my school days, during assembly prayers, it was one of my
funny habit to observe who had more colour on the body.
The celebration of Holi begins a week before the day of
playing colour. We used to have a Holi celebration during school days where we
all used to give a holy dip into colours to each other. I used to wonder what it
would have been if this ritual might have happened on Saturday, then the white
dress (which we were supposed to wear on Saturdays) would have been a proof of
masti we used to have in those days. And the dialogue would have been, “Surf
Excel Hai Na.”
Having said that, colours these days really have hard
chemicals in them, it is advisable to choose right colours for yourself. Body
actually gets exhausted after playing whole day with colours and water, and
once you step out of shower, drowsiness clouds your senses. Beware of marketing
gig, instead check out for colours with no glass contents (adds sparkling
lustre to the colours), high chemicals, and strong spirit in them. After
dipping into colour whole day, we feel sleepy after Shower which is due to high
Toxics in the colours.
To avoid such colours& reactions from them, take care of
following this Holi:
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Use herbal colours or use Chandan
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Apply oil
to body & hair
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Play Holi in a traditional way with flowers,
fragrance of flowers plays the role of antibiotics.
Enjoy Holi in a traditional way & to the fullest &
burn the Devil on this Holika Dahan... JJ
Holi hai!!
