Holi hai!...

Green, Blue, Yellow, Magenta.. sometime Silver and Black. The colours of Holi, or simply a reason to play the fool. I have no interest in getting myself covered from head (and i mean every root of my hair) to toe(pink/green cuticles). Its silly, childish, impractical and dangerous. Colours of Holi, are nothing but chemicals with a sprinkle of pink. Holi - sometimes just a reason to get drunk on Bhang and start a fight and hence, use all the word from your hindi (read abusive) vocabulary. Traditionally, it used to be just the basic colours, but since eveyrthing else gets hit by technology, let us not leave the festivals out! Water pistols, and oh! the ever so favourite water balloons. When we were kids, days before Holi, we used to take a bucket full of water balloons up on the roof, and hit anybody and eveyrbody who passed by..mostly missing them of course. Now, it just seems too much of an onus. Am i growing old? Or am i just growing up. Nevertheless, I can always enjoy the usual holiday I get on Holi. The sweets have a perfect excuse to oblige me, and i can watch others go silyl on colours. But what i realized the most today, is that, it will only be in a country like India, wherein on Holi, You probably couldnt recognize anyone because of the pallete of messy colours their faces have become; but you can also use your imagination and wonder how funny it would look if it were some other day, and somebody was talking to you about 'Democracy' or 'Ecological balance' with a painted face. So there, Holi can atleast give me a reason to Laugh..