{"id":1410,"date":"2021-03-20T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2021-03-02T11:52:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T11:52:49","slug":"holi-20-29-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/03\/20\/holi-20-29-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Holi (20-29 March)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1412 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/03\/holi-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Holi (20-29 March), also known as the &#8220;festival of spring&#8221;, the &#8220;festival of colours&#8221;, and the &#8220;festival of love&#8221; is a popular ancient Hindu festival signifying the triumph of good over evil.<\/p>\n<p>Holi celebrates\u00a0the arrival of spring, the end of winter, the blossoming of love, and for many it&#8217;s a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships. The festival also\u00a0celebrates\u00a0the beginning of a good spring harvest season.<\/p>\n<p>As well as\u00a0representing the arrival of spring and the triumph of good over evil, it is also said to be the enactment of a game the Hindu god Lord Krishna played with his consort Radha and the gopis, or milkmaids.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1411 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/03\/holi-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>Celebrants light bonfires, throw colourful powder called gulal, eat sweets, and\u00a0dance\u00a0to traditional folk music. A man, covered in the bright colours of Holi, showers the crowd with a handful of red powder during the festivities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1414 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/03\/holi-4-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/03\/holi-4-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/03\/holi-4.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>Some of the foods eaten at Holi include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thandai &#8211; an Indian cold drink prepared with a mixture of almonds, fennel seeds, watermelon kernels, rose petals, pepper, poppy seeds, cardamom, saffron, milk and sugar.<\/li>\n<li>DahiBhalle \u2013 lentil fritters soaked in yoghurt<\/li>\n<li>Puran Poli \u2013 sweet flatbread<\/li>\n<li>Rasmalai &#8211; dessert consisting of soft paneer balls immersed in chilled creamy milk.<\/li>\n<li>Badam\u00a0Phirni \u2013 like a rich rice pudding with almonds, cardamom, saffron and sugar<\/li>\n<li>Coconut Milk Murukku &#8211; deep fried snack made with rice flour and dal flour<\/li>\n<li>Bhang Pakora \u2013 made with gram flour, turmeric, dried mango powder, chili, onions and potatoes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holi (20-29 March), also known as the &#8220;festival of spring&#8221;, the &#8220;festival of colours&#8221;, and the &#8220;festival of love&#8221; is a popular ancient Hindu festival signifying the triumph of good over evil. Holi celebrates\u00a0the arrival of spring, the end of winter, the blossoming of love, and for many it&#8217;s a festive day to meet others, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/03\/20\/holi-20-29-march\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holi (20-29 March)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}