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Holi is a religious Hindu festival. It has its own religious significance of celebration. Popularly, it is known as Phagua or festival of colors or Dol Purnima (in West Bengal). Generally, it falls in the month of March (Hindi month-Phalgun). It is two days long festival; first day is celebrated as Holika Dahan and second day as colorful Holi. There is a myth of burning Holika at Holika Dahan by setting fire to the large heap of woods, co-dung cakes, etc. Women of the houses perform different types of rituals at Holika Dahan according to their culture and tradition. Celebration of Holi related to the Hiranyakashyap, Prahlad and Holika.
On the next day, people spray colored water on each other on the streets to celebrate colorful holi. At this day, no one becomes angry and play with each other. At this occasion, people gets involved in cleaning homes, arranging goods for delicious recipes, purchasing, etc from few days ago. At some places, there is a ritual of drinking thandai as cold drink.