Holi festival essay and about the holi festival in India

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Holi is the festival of colors. The holi festival in India is very well known as the holi festival of colors. The people of India enjoy this festival with joy and happiness. On the day of holi, everyone comes out from their home and celebrates this festival with friends, brothers, sisters, parents and other family members. People of India who reside in India or out of the country, both kinds of people wait for a long time to celebrate this festival.

Holi Festival Essay - 

The holi festival in India is very popular among the people of India. All kinds of people in this country celebrate this festival. People of India know this festival as "holi festival of colors". At the time of this festival, the people who stay outside their home town come back to their own home to celebrate this festival with their own family. Everyone wants to celebrate this festival with their own family members and friends.

This festival is being celebrated on the day of purnima (full moon day) of Fagun month. People celebrate this festival for two days. On the first day, they burn holika which is popularly known as "Holika Dahan". On the second day, people play holi with one another, eat different kinds of sweets and enjoy the festival with colors.

Holi festival about playing with colors. On the day of holi festival, people of all ages and castes come out from their homes and start playing holi with different colors. They put up colors on the cheeks of one another. They use the colors in the form of powder and liquid both. People also use pichkari to spray liquid colors on one another. People of the country India do this with full of joy and happiness. On the day of holi festival, people wear white-colored dresses. Girls wear white salwar, boys wear white kurta-pajama, women wear white sarees. White color is a sign of peace and happiness. 

On this special occasion, everyone loves to eat various kinds of sweets like motichur ke laddoo, jalebi, etc. Gujiya is a very special dessert on the eve of the holi festival in India. It is very popular among the people of India especially on the occasion of holi festival. One more favorite thing is thandai. Many people of different locations of India like to drink this in the time of holi occasion. It is a way to celebrate this festival. It is made up of milk, cashew, almond, etc. It is very good to eat and very special for this occasion.

This festival is very enjoyable and joyful for everyone. People of all ages and castes enjoy it and celebrate it with great joy. We should enjoy this festival with the members of our family and our friends. This is our responsibility to celebrate this beautiful festival with peace. We should not do anything which hurts anyone. We need to judge the thinking of a person whether he is agreed to play holi or not. We should not force anyone to play holi. Thus we can maintain the peace of this wonderful day. Everyone will enjoy this festival. Drinking is a very bad habit. We must keep ourselves out of that practice. This may spoil the purity of the festival.

We must remember that holi festival s the festival of joy and happiness. So, we must keep the modesty of the festival and maintain peace on the day. We must be aware to make our holi festival the most joyful day.

History of holi festival India -

Story - 1:

Hiranyakashipu was a cruel king. his birthplace was moolsthan, nowadays termed as Multan. he was a tyrannical king. he called himself equal to the creator of the world i.e god and he forces people to worship him as the lord. the person who does not obey him, he punished them rigidly.

The public always feared from his behaviour. he had a sweat son named Prahalad. Prahalad was fond of the real creator i.e. Narayana ji. he was loyal to the god. and he never worshiped his father as a god. due to this reason, Hiranyakashipu was not happy with his son and he tried to kill his son by applying different ways but was unsuccessful. in the last when he has left no other option, he called Holika. Holika was Hiranyakashipu’s sister. she had a boon that she can’t  be burnt in fire. Hiranyakashipu influenced her and sought her help to get Prahalad killed. he planned how to kill Prahalad and explained it to Holika. then the day arrived, the action day in the falgun month, Holika took Prahalad in her dock and went to the place where the action was planned to take place.she sat down in the ignited fireplace. but Narayan ji planned it in his own idea. meanwhile, Prahalad started chanting the name of Narayana ji.by chance the veil of Holika went off her head and covered Prahalad and he kept on chanting. due to this Prahalad was saved but Holika died.

in this way, this festival is the symbol of devotion and love of adorer Prahalad towards god. this festival also symbolises goodness always wins over evil in the society.

Story - 2:

A story behind the celebration of holi (holika dahan, dhulandi) is madan-dahan event. Shankar ji (the creator)was performing tapasaya from decades because he lost his wife named Sati devi.


On the other hand, Tarkasura gained a boon from Brahma ji by performing penance i.e. tarkasura can only be killed by Shankar's son. he was so cruel that after getting the boon, he started disturbing the public on earth, he removed the Indra ji and other devtas from indralok. looking at all this Brahma ji told the solution to the problem to the devtas, he told only shankar’s son can kill Tarkasura. so go to Shankar ji and break his penance in whatever possible ways.

All the devtas decided and gave the job of breaking the tapasaya of Shankar ji to Kamadeva (wishes ke devta) and Rati (devi).kaamdev and Rati devi made their mind to go to Shankar ji to sought out the problem. they both reached kailash mountain and saw that shankar ji is fully dedicated to tapasaya. so they decided to wake him up by disturbing through different modes. one mode was dancing to their tunes, the other was to shot arrows at Shankar ji.

So they started the same. they kept on dancing for hours and days then, as a result, Shankar ji was getting disturbed. but that was not enough to wake him up. so Kaamdev and Rati kept on doing whatever they can do to disturb Shankar ji. one day Kaamdev shot the bunch of arrows(many arrows) at an instant on Shankar ji. as a result, Shankar ji’s meditation (tapasaya) broke out and his third eye opened. as soon as the third eye opened, Kaamdev was bhasm (ash) by the flame directed via the third eye.on the other hand, Parvati ji (devi) was performing tapasaya to get married to Shankar ji.

Now as the penance of Shankar ji was broken, as a result Shankar ji and Parvati ji got married and they had a son named kartikane who then killed Tarkasura. in this way, madan dahan via Shankar ji became the reason to celebrate holi.

Story - 3:

Shri Krishna ji was born in braj (India) and spent his childhood with naughtiness there. here Krishna ji has fallen in love with radha ji. Radha ji was fair skinned whereas Krishna ji was dark skinned. due to this color difference, Radha ji used to make fun of Krishna ji.


Krishna ji’s dark skin was due to a historical story or truth behind. the truth is once upon a time a rakshshi (devil) named Putana tried to kill Krishna ji when he was a small kid. she abducted Krishna ji and took him to a lonely place so that no one can disturb her while trying to kill Krishna ji. She then started feeding him poisoned milk so as to get Krishna ji killed. but this doesn’t go according to the plan of Putana. while getting fed by milk, Krishna ji he also started absorbing the life of her. she started shouting and running to the forest. but Krishna ji didn’t leave her. and as a result she was died and converted in ash. As Putana was killed by Krishna ji, therefore she gained salvation.but the poisoned milk did some harm to Krishna ji, as his color turned dark skinned. Putana was given this task of killing Krishna ji by Krishna's maternal uncle Kamsa(Kansa).kansa was king of Mathura. Kamsa wanted to kill Krishna ji because a saint predicted that Kamsa would be killed by his sister’s ninth son i.e. Krishna.

Krishna ji looked stunning, enamored and attractive in the dark complexion. Radha ji and other friends of hers started making fun of Krishna ji. therefore Krishna ji got jaundiced. he went to foster mother Yashoda ji to seek help. Yashoda ji gave an idea to Krishna ji to be happy. she told him to color the face of Radha ji as he wants. Krishna ji went to the place where Radha ji and other friends were playing. he started coloring the faces of Radha ji and other friends as Krishna ji wanted. and this really helped Krishna ji to feel awesome.

This pious love of Krishna-Radha ji is remembered and celebrated as holi.

Some delicious food recipes for holi festival 2020- 


Recipe for holi special gujiya - 

Ingredients -

1. All purpose flour - 4 cups.
2. Khoya - 200 gm.
3. Sugar - 1 cup.
4. Green Cardamom (Powdered) - 1 tablespoon.
5. Almonds (Finely chopped) - 1 teaspoon.
6. Semolina - 1/4 cup.
7. Ghee - 1 & 1/2 cup.
8. Water - 1/4 cup.

Method -

Take a bowl. Add all purpose flour to it. Add water slowly and start to making the dough. Add some ghee to it and mix it well with the dough. The ghee will give the gujiya a traditional taste. Make the dough soft. To make it soft, knead it well by sprinkling some water on it. After attaining the proper consistency, keep the dough aside to set.

Now, take a frying pan and put it on the stove. Add the khoya and semolina into the pan and saute them till they turn into golden color. Now keep them aside. After cooling, add sugar, cardamom, and soaked almonds to the mixture of khoya and semolina and mix them well. To add some extra crunch, you may add some roasted nuts with the mixture. Take two drops of refined oil and spread it well on your palms.

Now, take the dough and make small balls. Now make it like chapattis and convert it like a cup in the middle to fill the stuffing in the dough. After filling up, seal the corners in such a way that the stuffing should not be left out in the time of frying. You can give a shape to the gujiya as per your choice.

Put a frying pan on the gas stove over a medium flame. After that, add the gujiya to the pan and fry them till they attain the golden color. Take them out and keep on a tissue paper over a plate. Add some crushed peesta and almonds for garnishing. Serve them with Thandai.

Recipe for holi special Malpua - 

Ingredients - 

1. All purpose flour - 200 gm.
2. Semolina - 100 gm.
3. Fennel seeds - 1 teaspoon.
4. Baking powder - 1/2 teaspoon.
5. Green Cardamom (powdered) - 1 teaspoon.
6. Milk - 500 ml.
7. Ghee - 1 cup.
8. Sugar - 250 gm.
9. Water - 250 ml.
10. Khoya - 50 gm.
11. Saffron - 2 pinch.
12. Chopped peesta - 2 tablespoon.

Method - 

First of all, prepare the sugar syrup. To make it, put a frying pan over medium flame. Add water in it. Add the sugar and stir it till the sugar gets fully dissolved. After that, add 2/3 tablespoon milk in it and stir again. After a few minutes, you will notice scum will rise up. Remove them from the top. After some time, it will get thicken. Remove the pan from the gas stove and keep the pan aside.

Take a bowl. Add maida, rava, baking powder, khoya, cardamom powder, fennel seeds. Add milk slowly and start mixing it. It should not be too thick. Maintain consistency in such a way that it can be poured on a frying pen. After preparing the batter, keep it aside for some time to absorb the flavor of all the spices.

Now, put a frying pan over a low flame on a gas stove. Add ghee in it. Take a ladle. Take the batter with the help of the ladle and spread it on the frying pan evenly. Cook the malpua from both sides till it attains a light brown look. Remove the cooked malpua and keep them on tissue paper to remove excess ghee. Add them into the sugar syrup and allow to soak for 30 minutes. Take the malpua out from the syrup and add crushed peesta on them for garnishing. Serve them hot.

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