HOLI ESSAY 1 (100 WORDS)

Holi is the most famous festival of colours. It is celebrated every year in the month of Falgun (March) by the
people of Hindu religion. It is celebrated with great joy and enthusiasm as it brings feeling of love and
closeness among people. Colourful colours are spread out by the people over each other. At this day we meet
each other, handshake, hug and apply abeer on the forehead to each other. We sing religious songs (or Fagua
geet) with musical instruments like Dholak, Kirtal, etc. At this special day we eat special things like gujhiya,
sweets, chips, papad, halwa, pani puri, dahi bade, etc. A day before the colourful holi, Holika Dahan takes
place.

HOLI ESSAY 2 (150 WORDS)

Holi is the widely celebrating festival of the year just like Diwali by the Hindus. Every year it falls in the
month of Falgun (or March) which indicates the beginning of the spring season too. There is a great history
and significance of celebrating this holi festival every year. Long years ago, there was a Holika, a devil sister
of devil Hiranyakashyap who tried to burn Prahlad (son of her brother) in the big fire by taking him in her lap.
Prahlad was a true devotee of God who was saved from fire by the God however Holika was burnt and
changed to ashes. From then, Hindu people celebrate the victory of goodness over the devil power every year
as a festival of holi.

It is a public holiday when all the banks, schools, colleges, offices and other institutions are closed. We
celebrate this festival very happily by spraying colourful colours to each other in the morning. Generally,
people celebrate holi for the whole day and come to home in the night.

HOLI ESSAY 3 (200 WORDS)

Holi is the great festival of colors, celebrated every year by the Hindu people in India. Holi festival falls every
year in the spring season in the month of Falgun (or March). It is one of the happiest festivals of the Hindus
like Diwali. It is celebrated every year on the first day of Chaitra month. The whole environment and nature
looks very beautiful and colourful at the time of holi.

Holi festival celebration starts at the last day of Phalgun by the Holika Dahan in the evening and colour play in
the next morning. Children wait for this festival with lots of courage and happiness and starts collecting
colourful colours, balloons, bucket, pitchakri, etc to play holi. They also collect some sticks, straws and co-
dung cakes in the mid of cross road and make a big heap for the ceremony of Holika Dahan.

They get together at the place in the night and set fire in the huge heap of sticks, straws and co-dung cakes to
celebrate Holika Dahan. Women sing ceremonial songs during the Holika Dahan. Everyone becomes in happy
mood and wait for the morning of next day to play holi. We sprinkle watery colors to each other, throw color
filled balloons, etc. At this day everyone forgets the social distinctions and meets and welcomes each other
with lots of tasty foods and sweets.

HOLI ESSAY 4 (250 WORDS)

Holi is a festival of colors celebrated every year on a full moon day in the month of March (or Falgun). It is
also known as the festival of love, joy, happiness, unity, renewal and triumph. We celebrate holi with vibrant
colours indicating joy, love and happiness to each other. Behind celebrating the holi festival there is a great
reason, legends, beliefs and significance.

A long ago, there was a king, Hiranyakashyap, his sister, Holika and son, Prahlad. Prahlad was a holy spirit
and spiritually devoted to God however his father was keen to be worshipped by everyone including his own
son as a God. But it was not accepted by the Prahlad and he continued worshipping God. His father was angry
with him and planned to kill him by burning in the fire. He asked sister Holika to have Prahlad in her lap and
sit in the fire (as Holika was booned by the God to never get killed by the fire). Holika did so but unfortunately
she died in the fire and Prahlad was saved by the Lord. This myth had originated the holi celebration.

People fully enjoy this day by playing colors, meeting and hugging each other, eating tasty foods and other
activities. People meet with their near and dear ones, friends, relatives, neighbours and apply abeer to their
forehead which shows their happiness to each other. People welcome others at their door step with lots of
eating things and colours. In this way, they pass their whole day with lots of fun and joy.

HOLI ESSAY 5 (300 WORDS)

Holi is a most favourite festival of all as it brings lots of joy and happiness. It is celebrated every year by the
people of Hindu religion as a very important festival. It falls in the start of spring season generally in the
month of March (or Falgun). Everyone wait for this festival with lots of courage and special preparations of
how to celebrate it.

There is a great story of Prahlad behind celebrating the holi. Once Prahlad (who was a great devotee of God)
was tried to be killed by his own father as he denied to worship his own father in place of God. His aunt,
Holika, sit in the fire by keeping him in her lap on the order of Prahlads father but he was saved by the God as
he was a true devote. And Holika burnt in the fire even after she was booned by the God to never get harmed
by the fire. From that day, Hindu people start celebrating the festival of holi every year to remember the
triumph of goodness over badness.

A day before colourful holi, people burn a heap of woods and co-dung cakes in the night in the myth of
burning Holika to remember that day. Some people follow the special ritual of burning the waste of sarson
ubtan massage of each family member in the Holika in the myth that doing so would remove all the evil power
from the house and the body and bring happiness and positive power to the home.
In the next morning, people play with colours with their family members, relatives, friends and neighbours.
Kids of the house enjoy this day by throwing colour filled balloons to each other or using pitchakri. Everyone
go to the doors of other to meet, hug and apply abeer to the forehead showing their love and affection to each
other. Special preparations are done for this day like arrangements of sweets, chips, namkeen, dahi bade, pani
puri, papadi, etc.

HOLI ESSAY 6 (400 WORDS)

Holi is a colourful and most important festival of the India. It is celebrated annually in the month of March
(Falgun) on Purnima or pooranmashi by the people of Hindu religion. People wait for this festival very eagerly
and enjoy by playing with colours and eating delicious foods. Children come out of their homes in the early
morning with colours and pitchakri to enjoy with friends. Women of the houses started preparing needed
things for the holi celebration like special and delicious dishes, sweets, chips, namkeen and other things to
welcome their neighbours, friends and relatives at holi.

Holi is a festival of joy and happiness which spread real colour and pleasure in the life of everyone. People
sprinkle real colours or colored powder (means gulal) to each other and break all the barriers of discrimination
between them. The significance behind celebrating this festival is the great history of Prahlad and his aunt
Holika. A long ago, there was a devil king, Hiranyakashyap. He was father of Prahlad and brother of Holika.
He was booned by the Lord Brahma that he cannot be killed by any man or animal, neither any ashtra or
sashtra, neither inside the home or outside and neither in the day or night. Getting such power he became very
arrogant and ordered everyone including his own son to worship him instead of God as he is a real God.

Because of his fear, people started worshiping him except Prahlad as he was a true devotee of Lord Vishnu.
After seeing such type of behaviour of the Prahlad, Hiranyakashyap made a plan with sister Holika to kill
Prahlad. He ordered his sister to sit in the fire by having Prahlad in her lap. Holika did so but unfortunately she
burnt in the fire however Prahlad was not harmed and even not touched by the fire as he was under the
protection and blessings of God. From then, Hindu people started celebrating that event as Holi festival after
the name of Holika. This festival is celebrated to remember the victory of goodness over bad or devil power. In
the night or evening, a day before the colourful holi, people burn a heap of wood and co-dung in the nearby
areas in the myth of burning Holika.
Everyone enjoy this festival by singing, dancing, playing colours, hugging each other and eating delicious food.
It is a Public holiday when all the schools, colleges, universities, offices, banks and other institutions becomes
closed so that people can go to their home and fully enjoy this special festival.

HOLI ESSAY 7 (500 WORDS)

Holi is very famous festival of the colours celebrated every year in the month of Phalgun by the people of
India with big joy. It is the festival of lots of fun and frolic activities especially for the children who take part
in the celebration a week before and lasts a week after the date of Holi festival. Holi festival is celebrated by
the people of Hindu religion all over the India especially in North India in the month of March.

There are many stories and legends behind celebrating the Holi in India for years. It is the festival of great
importance and significance. According to the Hindu mythology, it is considered as Holi celebration was
started a long ago from the ancient time when Holika was burned in the fire while trying to kill her own
brothers son in the fire. It is considered as there was a demon king called Hiranyakashyap, father of little
Prahlad. He had tried to kill his own son in the fire when Prahlad denied to worship his father as Prahlad was a
great devotee of the Lord Vishnu. When Hiranyakashyap failed in many of his strategies to kill Prahlad, he
ordered his own sister, Holika to sit in fire by having Prahlad in her lap as she was booned by the God for
never getting harmed by the fire.

However, this strategy was also became failed as little Prahlad was the devotee of the Lord Vishnu and he was
saved by his God. Holika was died in the fire and Prahlad was saved. From that day, people of Hindu religion
started celebrating the Holi festival every year. In the evening of a day before the colourful Holi, people make
a heap of woods and co-dung cakes on the cross roads and do fire in the heap in the myth of burning Holika
and celebrate Holika Dahan ceremony. Some people make round and round of the burning Holika and worship
to get blessed with the prosperity and good health by burning all the sins and diseases in the fire. There is also
a tradition in Hindu religion of burning wastes of the whole body massage with mustard seed paste in the fire
in the myth of burning all the skin problems and get good health for the whole year.

In the next morning of the Holika Dahan, people celebrate a colourful Holi by getting together at one place and
on the roads. Colourful Holi preparations start a week before the main date of the Holi festival. People become
highly enthusiastic especially children of the home who starts buying different colours a week before the date.
Even they start playing colours with their friends, neighbours and relatives with pitchakri and small balloons.
In the morning people start roaming to each others home by having abeer and colours to play. They apply
abeer to the forehead of each other, hug each other and celebrate eating various delicious dishes like gujhiya,
sweets, pani puri, dahi bade, chips and so many other yummy dishes at each others home all through the day.