Holi Festival 2013 in ITV News

Colourful Holi celebrations

People in Leicester are celebrating a Hindu festival marking the start of Spring by covering friends with coloured powder. The Holi festival represents the end of the gloomy winter and the liveliness of the Spring season.

The Hindu festival Holi marks the end of winter and the beginning of Spring and as this video shows, one of the colourful ways of celebrating this is to cover one another in paint.
Colourful Holi celebrations underway in Leicester to mark Spring

Covering one another in colourful paint is one of the traditions of Holi

Despite the unseasonal snow, hundreds of people have turned out to a Hindu festival celebrating the start of Spring.

Up to 3,500 people are expected to arrive in this park to celebrate Holi

People in Leicester celebrated by covering friends with coloured powder. The Holi festival represents the end of the gloomy winter and the liveliness of the Spring season.

A bonfire marks the end of winter, looking forward to Spring

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