O Thou Holy Holi! Delhi celebrated every year the united India in early March Holi, the festival of joy, (delusion) sense, the colors and the arrival of spring! (Note: Holi is glorified mainly in northern India, however, celebrated under different names, such as Phagwah, Dol Yatra or Kamadahana, in the South.)
These are not primarily to large temple ceremonies, a time of contemplation or innsichgehende deepest religious peace, but of ecstasy, colors, and social norms, which for a day Board shall be thrown.
In the beginning: quite unspectacular
because it is too powerful to Holi, the only day of the year, where the illegal drug THC, in small amounts (less than 5% - may be a waste / residues) in India legally purchased and consumed - hence the name
"Bhang" !
Just imagine an India that is not worked in the / should be / are, can spot the streets are completely empty and deserted, and there may even be difficult, even a cow. Absolute "twenty eight days later "feeling!
is all the more stressful and risk-it-like in the days before in the alleys and streets. For each boy, rascal, young and even the "mature" adults are targeting rambling Indians and preferably white tourists and beschmeissen them with depth charges, whether from the roof and barricaded himself or accurately from the other side of the walkway. The whole city seems suddenly only water pistols, a la Super Soaker
10000, and to sell color Made - just toys for "real men".
But back to Holitag, or rather back to drugs. For everywhere [on the JNU campus] to a 'bebhangte "People who bought the day before and embrace kunterbund mixed colors and utensils, counter, for which there seems to be nothing better than to paint one, and bhang mixed in a not further recognizes Lichen liquid to offer.
The joyful bustle culminates when the men, accompanied by all sorts of drum noise begin their clothes like crazy to tear from the upper body, and joyfully with "We're going to Jerusalem, and who wants to" start to play. True joy comes on but only when these naked, sweat-drenched border and colorful upper body come to a relatively single-minded, a hug can do and start the whole game from scratch.
But we go on the meta level of this driver. For who has somewhat busy with the Indian social rules and norms will find that "touching" and "touch" or even "hugging" strictly "made" is not public.
thus serves as a valve to this event, for all the other 364 days of the year of "abstinence" and expressed "desire".
verspührt late hour to one or the other a previously unknown feeling of hunger, what with even more "Bhang" can be stopped, as have any "Vendors" and "eating street stalls," closed. The hard core, however, remains steadfast, and every now and again you may spot here and there each other dyeable "prospective couples" who want detailed with color paste (which is sometimes even be toxic and carcinogenic and is prohibited definitely in Europe), whether in liquid , pullvriger or oily consistency.
With all "funny" and "quaint" Behavior one must not forget that this festival one of the oldest of the Hindu religion, and is deeply rooted in the gods and legends related to many different rituals and procedures.
