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Volume 121 · No. 40
Indian festival celebrates culture, unites campus community BY TRENT PARKER The field behind the International Cultural Center was awash in color Sunday afternoon as students celebrating the Indian festival Holi covered themselves in dyes and sprayed each other with water to the sound of Indian music. “It’s like a water balloon fight without balloons,” mathematics graduate student Noah Winslow said. The Indian Student Association hosted the local Holi observance, offering the dozens of attendees Indian food and music as they celebrated following the main event, in which students ran about throwing fistfulls of colorful dyes at each other until many were covered from head to toe. Holi, an ancient festival
| @TrentParker_TDR most popular in northern India, celebrates the triumph of good over evil, said Indian Student Association president Hari Perumal. The festival was born from a story of a prince who angered his father by worshipping a different god than he did. His father and evil aunt Holika plotted to trick him into being burned alive, but the god rescued the prince and Holika died in the flames instead, Perumal said. Observers of Holi light bonfires and throw colorful dyes on each other to represent the fire and ashes from the tale. While originally a Hindu festival, people of many other faiths in India have come to celebrate it, said analytics photos by GRETA JINES / The Daily Reveille
see HOLI, page 8
Check out festival recaps, pictures and performer Q&As at lsunow.com/daily/ entertainment photos by JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ / The Daily Reveille
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