INDIA HINDU HOLI FESTIVAL

Hindu faithfuls celebrate Lathmar Holi at Nandgaon

epa11229666 Hindu men from the villages of Nandgaon and Barsana are covered with colored powder as they celebrate the Lathmar Holi festival at the Nandgram temple in Nandgaon, Mathura, India, 19 March 2024. Holi is the Hindu spring festival of colors. In Barsana and Nandagaon, people celebrate a variation of Holi called 'Lathmar' Holi, which means beating with sticks. During the first day of the Lathmar Holi festival, the women of Barsana, the birthplace of Hindu God Krishna's beloved Radha, beat the men from Nandgaon, the hometown of Hindu God Krishna, with wooden sticks in response to their efforts to put color on them. On the second day the women of Nandgaon beat the men of Barsana. EPA/NIKHIL SINGH

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