It is primarily observed in India, Nepal, and other regions of the world with significant populations of Hindus or people of Indian origin and Nepalese diaspora. In recent years the festival has spread to parts of Europe and North America as a spring celebration of love, frolic, and colours.
Here in Amstelveen, there is a significant population from India and we had this festival this weekend. Instead of the traditional form of attacking anyone and everyone that is outside their homes, this was contained to a very large tent by the mall.
Anyone that entered the tent was viciously attacked with color. I was a specific target because I have a beautiful blank canvas on all of my head. Immediately on entering the tent, some lady slapped color on top of my head. And another guy came up to me and cupped my cheeks smearing more color.
We probably spend 30 minutes in the tent with color flying everywhere.
And we had an amazing time and it was just minutes from our home. When we got home, we took off our clothes outside and then went inside to take a shower. We did not get all of the color off of our bodies with just the one shower though. Jaimee had extra color in her ear. And it will probably never come out of Bevs hair.
