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Indian Holi Festival in Ireland?

  • 07-03-2012 6:07pm
    #1
    Rezident
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    Just back from India and gutted that I'll miss it (basically a mass coloured powdering of everyone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPTlfa5LYYE) although one very friendly family did a mini holi paint splattering of us last week.

    Do any Indians organise anything like Holi in Ireland? Would love to get somthing like this going, could be so much fun.


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  • #2
    biko
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    Moved out from an ancient thread.

    And no I don't think Indians in Ireland does that, not that I've seen anyway.


  • #3
    fedor.2.
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    Rezident wrote: »
    Just back from India and gutted that I'll miss it (basically a mass coloured powdering of everyone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPTlfa5LYYE) although one very friendly family did a mini holi paint splattering of us last week.

    Do any Indians organise anything like Holi in Ireland? Would love to get somthing like this going, could be so much fun.



    Head straight back out to India again, you may make it


  • #4
    Sindri
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    I had an Indian friend once who told me that in some festival where everything was painted (she showed me pictures) they got old sweet wrappers, painted some stones bright colours, and wrapped up the stones in the wrappers and gave them to people to eat.

    Is this the same festival?


  • #5
    Nodin
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    Rezident wrote: »
    Just back from India and gutted that I'll miss it (basically a mass coloured powdering of everyone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPTlfa5LYYE) although one very friendly family did a mini holi paint splattering of us last week.

    Do any Indians organise anything like Holi in Ireland? Would love to get somthing like this going, could be so much fun.

    Only heard of them doing the thing with the fireworks. We've a very small hindu community still, twould appear.


  • #6
    squod
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    Diwali gets done over here. No painty stuff.


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  • #7
    amod
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    Hi, There is one on 10th March Here are the details. Date : Saturday, 10th March 2011. (12:00 to 18:00) Venue : The National Show Center, Swords, Dublin Check the link - http://www.festivalofcolors.ie I am going. Hope to see you there.


  • #8
    Rezident
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    amod wrote: »
    Hi, There is one on 10th March Here are the details. Date : Saturday, 10th March 2011. (12:00 to 18:00) Venue : The National Show Center, Swords, Dublin Check the link - http://www.festivalofcolors.ie I am going. Hope to see you there.

    Seriously? That is amazing. Thank you so much, seeing the photos from India is making be so jealous :)


  • #9
    amod
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    I had a blast of time. Will be uploading videos to Youtube. First time I played Holi like in India.


  • #10
    Ellis Dee
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    I've been in India for several Holi festivals and in Nepal for one; the one in Nepal happened to be on the same date as Good Friday in Ireland, so it's hard to imagine two more different atmospheres. It's great fun and anyone who is there knows to wear old, dispensable clothes. I bought a shirt and cotton trousers for about 50 cent and it didn't matter that I ended up looking like a psychedelic trip.:):)

    I couldn't see it working well in Ireland, though, because everyone is fair game and some might get tight-arsed about it if they ended up with a kilo of brightly coloured aniline dyes on their Sunday-best clothes.

    By the way, Irish women might not be too happy with another aspect of Holi, especially in northern India and Nepal: goosing women in the street at every opportunity is part of the fun.;);)


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