Holi is one of the main festival of India and it is a festival of colours.This used to be the busiest time for us because preparation of this festival used to get started month in advance.One day before the actual holi of colours is celebrated there is a tradition of lighting bonfire of wood which signifies victory of good over evil and we used to collect wood in advance from where ever we could collect it from. We used to steal bamboo and shuttering wood from nearby construction sites.
It used to be so much fun & exciting experience since we friends used to go in dark in night with torch to steal the wood from these sites.In Holi also we used to collect donation from each house in our neighbourhood and with that money we used to offer sweet to the fire deity at the time of bonfire and then used to distribute it to each household who had given us the donation plus the visitors.So it was in very large scale and bonfire was lit in the centre of a big park.
I remember that one of the person refused to give donation to us and as i have told you in my earlier blogs that i was very naughty & mischievous in my childhood so i along with my friends decided to teach him a lesson.He had a garden which was fenced with wood from all side so we decided in the night before holi to destroy his wooden fence and burn it in holi and we exactly did that in night.Later on he came to know that it was done by us but he couldn't identify the culprit from several children.
Holi festival is also special because we eat lot of sweets and Gujiya & Malpua ( Both special sweets made at the time of festival ).Apart from using colours to throw at each other it was thrilling experience to throw balloons filled with coloured water and using water canons of different sizes and shapes.It is a festival celebrated by every body weather he is young or child or of old age.This was in 1975 when i was 12 year old.
It used to be so much fun & exciting experience since we friends used to go in dark in night with torch to steal the wood from these sites.In Holi also we used to collect donation from each house in our neighbourhood and with that money we used to offer sweet to the fire deity at the time of bonfire and then used to distribute it to each household who had given us the donation plus the visitors.So it was in very large scale and bonfire was lit in the centre of a big park.
I remember that one of the person refused to give donation to us and as i have told you in my earlier blogs that i was very naughty & mischievous in my childhood so i along with my friends decided to teach him a lesson.He had a garden which was fenced with wood from all side so we decided in the night before holi to destroy his wooden fence and burn it in holi and we exactly did that in night.Later on he came to know that it was done by us but he couldn't identify the culprit from several children.
Holi festival is also special because we eat lot of sweets and Gujiya & Malpua ( Both special sweets made at the time of festival ).Apart from using colours to throw at each other it was thrilling experience to throw balloons filled with coloured water and using water canons of different sizes and shapes.It is a festival celebrated by every body weather he is young or child or of old age.This was in 1975 when i was 12 year old.
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