Fah Thai Magazine Mar-Apr 2020

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Every hue used in Holi has its own
significance. Red stands for love and
fertility, blue depicts Krishna and
green is for new beginnings.
While the rest of India celebrates Holi
to the tune of hymns or Bollywood hits,
in Shantiniketan the festival is marked
with songs of Rabindranath Tagore.
The hues of palash, a flower that
blooms this time of the year, adorn
women during the festival.
Holi transcends all barriers,
when even the elderly are soaked
in joyous spirit.
Temple courtyards come alive with
devotional dances.
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
The work of Sugato Mukherjee, a
photographer and writer based in Kolkata,
has appeared in National Geographic
Traveller, Al Jazeera and Travel+Leisure,
among others. When he is not working on
personal documentary projects, Sugato
writes about exotic travel destinations. His
work on sulphur mining in East Java won
a Unesco award. sugatomukherjee.com
Soumya Bandyopadhyay is a street
photographer from Kolkata. He
loves apturing scenes of people, his
lens weaving intricate stories of
the constant change and different
shades of their lives. Though
by profession he is a computer
engineer, his photos have graced
exhibitions in India and overseas.
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