3/29/2005: Festival of colors celebrated in color

Undertoad · 03-29-2005, 08:14 PM

These are part of Holi celebrations, the festival of colors, in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta. Says here color dust is extensively used in the Hindu religious festival of Holi, which heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated with great enthusiasm all over India.

Leah · 03-29-2005, 08:32 PM

All this from a country that is short on fresh drinking water, I certainly hope they are using water from the river and not out of drinking bottles.

zippyt · 03-29-2005, 10:20 PM

HELL I see a wet sari (?) contest in the makeing !!!!!

xoxoxoBruce · 03-29-2005, 10:39 PM

I don't think I'd want to be breathing that neon pixie dust.

lookout123 · 03-30-2005, 10:31 AM

do you think there are a lot of tweekers that participate in the festival? with all the colors like that you could have someone hooked for days.

wolf · 03-30-2005, 12:36 PM

Darn it!! I no longer have anyone to ask about this. Our American to Foreign shrink ratio is way off right now (we have three americans to two foreigns now, although one of the american docs is technically foreign, as he got his MD at University of Bologna, Italy). We also are entirely depleted of Indians. (ohm, not woo woo) I've got a Pakistani, but he's muslim and won't know anything about this infidel pagan practices, heck he barely knows anything about Islam, slacked off as a kid in religious school ... and the Indian doc who is still working nearby that I could call up and ask, well she was raised Catholic.

Maybe I can find an Indian nut to ask ... nope. This week's batch includes Korean, Romanian, and Persian (Iranian who fled before the Shah fell).

So the mystery will continue. Until I hit google.

jaguar · 03-30-2005, 12:39 PM

what is a tweeker lookout?

lookout123 · 03-30-2005, 12:58 PM

Quote:

(ohm, not woo woo)

i read that. wasn't paying attention so i reread it. i am now cleaning french fry debris off my keyboard. literally. thanks wolf for your silly humor.

Jag - tweeker can be used in reference to someone who uses meth, extacy, lsd, etc. in this case i was referring to X and lsd users.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-30-2005, 06:11 PM

I'm sure they've got hash over there that would do the trick.

dasviper · 03-31-2005, 02:47 PM

I went to a local Holi celebration here in Texas, at the Barsana Dham Hindu temple (near Austin). Great, great fun, a very joyful time. Running around with my camera in a ziplock bag, I was quickly covered in fine fluorescent pink dust by all manner of celebrants, little kids to old men, who would run up to me, cry "Happy Holi!", and smear some of the stuff on me. Later there was free Indian food for all. Afterwards I went with friends to an ice cream store and we recieved many curious (friendly) looks.

03-29-2005, 08:14 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	3/29/2005: Festival of colors celebrated in color These are part of Holi celebrations, the festival of colors, in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta. Says here color dust is extensively used in the Hindu religious festival of Holi, which heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated with great enthusiasm all over India.

03-29-2005, 10:20 PM	#3
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	HELL I see a wet sari (?) contest in the makeing !!!!! __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

03-29-2005, 10:39 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I don't think I'd want to be breathing that neon pixie dust. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-30-2005, 10:31 AM	#5
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	do you think there are a lot of tweekers that participate in the festival? with all the colors like that you could have someone hooked for days. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

03-30-2005, 12:36 PM	#6
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Darn it!! I no longer have anyone to ask about this. Our American to Foreign shrink ratio is way off right now (we have three americans to two foreigns now, although one of the american docs is technically foreign, as he got his MD at University of Bologna, Italy). We also are entirely depleted of Indians. (ohm, not woo woo) I've got a Pakistani, but he's muslim and won't know anything about this infidel pagan practices, heck he barely knows anything about Islam, slacked off as a kid in religious school ... and the Indian doc who is still working nearby that I could call up and ask, well she was raised Catholic. Maybe I can find an Indian nut to ask ... nope. This week's batch includes Korean, Romanian, and Persian (Iranian who fled before the Shah fell). So the mystery will continue. Until I hit google. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-29-2005, 08:32 PM	#2
Leah Love my Heffalumps Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia (best place in the world) Posts: 346	All this from a country that is short on fresh drinking water, I certainly hope they are using water from the river and not out of drinking bottles.

03-30-2005, 12:39 PM	#7
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	what is a tweeker lookout? __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

03-30-2005, 06:11 PM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I'm sure they've got hash over there that would do the trick. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-31-2005, 02:47 PM	#10
dasviper Belt Conveyor Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Hanover, NH, USA Posts: 67	Pics of a Texas Holi I went to a local Holi celebration here in Texas, at the Barsana Dham Hindu temple (near Austin). Great, great fun, a very joyful time. Running around with my camera in a ziplock bag, I was quickly covered in fine fluorescent pink dust by all manner of celebrants, little kids to old men, who would run up to me, cry "Happy Holi!", and smear some of the stuff on me. Later there was free Indian food for all. Afterwards I went with friends to an ice cream store and we recieved many curious (friendly) looks.

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