Holi, the festival of colours was celebrated with a bang in the city of lakes. Some youngsters enjoyed this day enthusiastically with family and friends and some were not able to celebrate this day so excitedly.
Amongst various festivals celebrated in the country, Holi is one of the most significant and ancient festival. It is the spring festival celebrated with great pleasure and enthusiasm. The citizens of Bhopal had started the preparations for the D-day. Market places were getting full with crowd as frenzied shoppers start making arrangements for the festival days before.
Where there was the aroma of gujiya that were capturing the people’s attention on the other hand youngsters at their home parties enjoyed thandai as they were playing with the colours. The city streets were adorned with sparkling colours and everywhere there were the splashes of gulaal. The Pioneer had talked to the youngsters of the city and shared their fun experiences of the Holi festival.
Dushyant Gupta said, “I celebrated this day with my family and friends. In the morning I went to my friend’s place where she had arranged for a Holi party and we had a great fun there. later I played gulaal with my family too.” Geetika, a college student and a newly married bride said, “This is my first Holi after my marriage. I celebrated this day with my husband and it was a fun experience for me.”
Where the streets were filled with great joy of holi colours, the newly married couple took the full pleasure of their ‘first Holi’. But few youngsters having their final examinations remained aloof from celebrating the colour fest with zest. Priya Verma, a school student said, “I am having my examinations i.e. the final examinations now and this is reason I was unable to play gulaal with my family and friends. I am really upset with this.”
On the other hand, another school student Minaal said, “Having exams at this time is really horrible. I did not enjoy this year’s holi as I was into studying. Of course, having done with Pooja I put shagun ka rang to all my family members but what I missed was the fun with music and dance.” A day before Holi I coloured all friends at school and this was the real fun,” says another students Deepa.
There have been miscellaneous experiences of the young Bhopalites. Some enjoyed the day to the fullest on the other hand some were into studies all the time. But the festival did not fail in spreading its magic on all.