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Q3. WRITE AN ESSAY ON "FESTIVAL OF COLORS - HOLI" (10 MARKS)

This used to be a regular question till class 6 exams. So finally, I have decided to earn those 10 valuable marks, that i always missed. Festival of colors - Holi. The significance of this festival also, like many others, goes back to the accepted legends. Lord Vishnu saved a demon king's son, who was his ardent follower. The king did not like his son to be a God's follower, and ordered his sister Holika, who was blessed by some lord (I think Lord Brahma) that fire could not burn her, to sit with the son in flames. By Lord Vishnu's grace, Holika burnt, and the demon king's son got saved, like in many previous attempts of his murder. SO that is the legend. I really don't know how "colors" got involved with the celebrations, but an intelligent guess would be that next day, people ran amok throwing colors at each other... Holi's prominence in the contours of Indian society can be judged by the immense patronage that it receives from the Bollywood, being o...