Though the festival has been commercialized with all sorts of marathon events like the Color Run, it’s actually rooted in religious Hindu myths and is one of the biggest Hindu festivals of the ...

On Sunday, hundreds of people gathered at The Hindu Temple of Kentucky to celebrate Holi, the Festival of Colors, marking the arrival of spring and new beginnings.

Millions of people in South Asia are celebrating Holi by splashing each other with brightly colored powders, dancing to festive music and feasting on traditional sweets.

One of the most celebrated Hindu festivals, Diwali or Deepavali commemorates the victory of good over evil and is celebrates with lights and candles.

A devotee garlands a senior Hindu holy man walking in a procession, a day before the 45-day-long Maha Kumbh festival, in Prayagraj, India, on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025.

The festival, that is spread over a period of five days, also marks the beginning of the new year in the Hindu calendar, and celebrates the year’s last rice-crop harvest, as per JSTOR.

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Millions of Indians began celebrating the annual Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, by symbolically lighting a record 2.51 million clay oil lamps at dusk on Wednesday on the ...

A priest sprays colored powder and water on devotees during celebrations of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, at the Kalupur Swaminarayan temple in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, March 14, 2025.

Diwali the 'Festival of Lights' The word Diwali is derived from the Sanskrit word Deepavali, which means "row of lights," that devotees light outside their homes during the festival to represent ...

Millions of people in South Asia are celebrating Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, by smearing each other with brightly colored powder, dancing to festive music and feasting on traditional ...

Indians are celebrating the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, by symbolically lighting a record 2.51 million clay oil lamps at dusk on the banks of the river Saryu in a city they believe to be the ...