{"id":11029,"date":"2019-03-30T18:15:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T22:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=11029"},"modified":"2019-03-30T18:15:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T22:15:53","slug":"holi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2019\/03\/30\/holi\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Celebrating Holi, The Hindu Festival Of Colors, At Boston\u00a0University"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holi is \u201cthe Hindu Festival of Colors which celebrates the arrival of Spring,\u201d the Boston University Hindu Student Council<\/a> writes. This afternoon they invited hundreds of their fellow students to join them on the campus\u2019 Commington Mall in Boston to celebrate the holiday in the traditional way\u2014with dancing and playing colors, namely hurling handfuls of violet and orange and other vividly colored powders at each other in a massive, rollicking free-for-all.<\/p>\n

Photos copyright 2019 Greg Cook.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Celebrating Holi in an event organized by the Boston University Hindu Student Council, March 30, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Celebrating Holi in an event organized by the Boston University Hindu Student Council, March 30, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Celebrating Holi in an event organized by the Boston University Hindu Student Council, March 30, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Celebrating Holi in an event organized by the Boston University Hindu Student Council, March 30, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Celebrating Holi in an event organized by the Boston University Hindu Student Council, March 30, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Celebrating Holi in an event organized by the Boston University Hindu Student Council, March 30, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Celebrating Holi in an event organized by the Boston University Hindu Student Council, March 30, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Celebrating Holi in an event organized by the Boston University Hindu Student Council, March 30, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Celebrating Holi in an event organized by the Boston University Hindu Student Council, March 30, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Celebrating Holi in an event organized by the Boston University Hindu Student Council, March 30, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Celebrating Holi in an event organized by the Boston University Hindu Student Council, March 30, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Celebrating Holi in an event organized by the Boston University Hindu Student Council, March 30, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Celebrating Holi in an event organized by the Boston University Hindu Student Council, March 30, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Celebrating Holi in an event organized by the Boston University Hindu Student Council, March 30, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Celebrating Holi in an event organized by the Boston University Hindu Student Council, March 30, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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