'The whole world is but one family' - Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Australia
'The whole world is but one family' - Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Australia
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April 2010 Vol. 7 No. 10<br />
the Holi playing area even before that. Two middle<br />
aged ladies from <strong>Australia</strong> shared their experiences of<br />
Holi celebration in India last year and they seemed<br />
very enthusiastic to play Holi again <strong>but</strong> th<strong>is</strong> time at<br />
Darling Harbour. A few minutes later another young<br />
lady approached me and asked significance of th<strong>is</strong><br />
festival to me. With my limited knowledge, I tried<br />
to answer her question by saying ‘Holi <strong>is</strong> the festival<br />
of colours and <strong>is</strong> played during spring season every<br />
year in India. The way it <strong>is</strong> celebrated <strong>is</strong> different in<br />
different parts of India <strong>but</strong> colour <strong>is</strong> used everywhere.<br />
The main idea behind using colours <strong>is</strong> that colours<br />
remove all differences prevailing in the society as you<br />
can not guess the caste, colour, creed, and religion<br />
behind the coloured face and every<strong>one</strong> plays Holi with<br />
each other forgetting all such differences. Moreover,<br />
th<strong>is</strong> festival <strong>is</strong> so much fun that even foes turn to<br />
friends and play Holi together.’<br />
As soon as we opened the barrier for the crowd to<br />
enter the Holi playing area, people of all age groups<br />
and all nationalities just jumped in and started playing<br />
Holi with each other. Entire day, people had shown<br />
their enthusiasm in playing Holi and some people<br />
were coming again and again especially a 12 year old<br />
boy Jimmy. He looked so innocent and cute while he<br />
was colouring himself. Last colouring session was the<br />
wildest session, every<strong>one</strong> started pushing others to<br />
Holi Mahotsav 2010 - Event Stat<strong>is</strong>tics<br />
grab some colours and there were unexpectedly huge<br />
number of people in the playing area. It had become<br />
so difficult to manage the crowd for a while that we<br />
had to stand on the table for d<strong>is</strong>tri<strong>but</strong>ing colours.<br />
By the end of the colouring session, every<strong>one</strong> was<br />
looking stunningly colourful, happy and funny as<br />
well. Some people were laughing at each other,<br />
some were comparing the colours of each other, kids<br />
running around and parents worried about the clothes<br />
and whether th<strong>is</strong> colour would be washed off from<br />
their faces or not.<br />
Last performance of the day, Bhangra and the beats of<br />
Dhol put dancing shoes on every<strong>one</strong> backstage as well<br />
as frontstage. Celebration ended with dancing and<br />
thanksgiving to every<strong>one</strong> who helped in organizing<br />
the event, to every<strong>one</strong> who performed on stage,<br />
to every<strong>one</strong> who had their stalls, to every<strong>one</strong> who<br />
coloured themselves, to every<strong>one</strong> who were capturing<br />
the event with their cameras and last <strong>but</strong> not the least<br />
there was a big thanks to the audience and spectators<br />
without them the event may not had been that huge<br />
success.<br />
Day / Date No of Performance Items No of Performers No of Staff / Volunteers<br />
Friday - 12 March 2010 3 11 6<br />
Saturday - 13 March 2010 15 120 43<br />
Sunday - 14 March 2010 19 267 46<br />
Total 37 398 47
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