As the festival of Holi approaches all the thoughts go back to the days in Allahabad and how preparations would start a month in advance.
Getting the pichkari cleaned and pumped up for instant operation. The collecting of the taysu phool and pulling out huge cylinders to fill with water and then to push the flowers into it to ferment over night for the colour to form. The basanti orange colour, thus obtained, would be the first colours that would be used the following morning when guests and family set out to enjoy the festival of colour. The kitchen filled with delicious special treats for the festive air.
Gujjias filled with great delicacies, mango shaped and with corrugated edges, would be circulated among the children and elders busy and involved with the splashing of colour all over would stop by to grab a few of them and then continue with the revelry. The evening would be calmer and refined. After the scrubbing and cleaning... fresh traditional clothes would be worn and we would sit and wait for the visitors to drop by, put the gentle tika on the forehead, wish each other a prosperous year ahead and move on to the next’.
Excerpt from Big B’s blog on Holi
Getting the pichkari cleaned and pumped up for instant operation. The collecting of the taysu phool and pulling out huge cylinders to fill with water and then to push the flowers into it to ferment over night for the colour to form. The basanti orange colour, thus obtained, would be the first colours that would be used the following morning when guests and family set out to enjoy the festival of colour. The kitchen filled with delicious special treats for the festive air.
Gujjias filled with great delicacies, mango shaped and with corrugated edges, would be circulated among the children and elders busy and involved with the splashing of colour all over would stop by to grab a few of them and then continue with the revelry. The evening would be calmer and refined. After the scrubbing and cleaning... fresh traditional clothes would be worn and we would sit and wait for the visitors to drop by, put the gentle tika on the forehead, wish each other a prosperous year ahead and move on to the next’.
Excerpt from Big B’s blog on Holi
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