Happy Holi!

Today, March 27th, is the day where people around the world celebrate HOLI.  It's a festival of COLOR welcoming the spring season and the ripe opportunities and new beginnings that accompany it.  Last year, we celebrated HOLI on our campus to raise funds for a couple teams doing work in India.  Here's a video by the awesome photographer/videographer Jake Morgan. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/47564466]

Here are a few of my favorite moments I captured from the event:

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Some images from HOLI festivals captured by my favorite photographer Steve McCurry:

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Here's an interesting article in The New York Times by Vishnu Varma about the colony of widows in northern India's Uttar Pradesh and how they are breaking conventions by playing Holi.

Happy HOLI!