India celebrated a colourful Holi festival

India celebrated Holi, or Bengali New Year, with a colourful parade of songs, dances and fun. The locals held a colourful parade accompanied by folk songs, dances and general merriment. Traditionally, Holi participants shower each other with coloured powders of red, green, pink, and yellow, and throw coloured water on each other.

Learn more about what the colourful festival of Holi symbolises in Indian culture in this report by ANI, a TV BRICS network partner.