• Indian Border Security Force Soldiers (BSF) dance as they celebrate during the Holi festival inside a camp in Srinagar on March 27, 2013. Holi, also called the Festival of Colours, is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon day of the lunar month. AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA *** Local Caption *** 788689-01-08.jpg
    Indian Border Security Force Soldiers (BSF) dance as they celebrate during the Holi festival inside a camp in Srinagar on March 27, 2013. Holi, also called the Festival of Colours, is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon day of the lunar month. AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA *** Local Caption *** 788689-01-08.jpg
  • Indian revellers cover each other with colour during the Festival of Colours. Raveendran / AFP Photo
    Indian revellers cover each other with colour during the Festival of Colours. Raveendran / AFP Photo
  • A child at nursery cries after being smeared with natural colours from vegetable paste during Holi celebrations at a city civic school in Mumbai. Indranil Mukherejee / AFP Photo
    A child at nursery cries after being smeared with natural colours from vegetable paste during Holi celebrations at a city civic school in Mumbai. Indranil Mukherejee / AFP Photo
  • Bangalore residents smear each other in a variety of colours. Holi is celebrated at the end of the winter season on the last full moon day of the lunar month Phalguna (February or March). Jagadeesh NV / EPA
    Bangalore residents smear each other in a variety of colours. Holi is celebrated at the end of the winter season on the last full moon day of the lunar month Phalguna (February or March). Jagadeesh NV / EPA
  • An Indian vendor covered with coloured powder gestures during the festival. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP Photo
    An Indian vendor covered with coloured powder gestures during the festival. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP Photo
  • An Indian youth takes a break from festivities to have a cigarette in a alleyway in New Delhi. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP Photo
    An Indian youth takes a break from festivities to have a cigarette in a alleyway in New Delhi. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP Photo
  • Indians enjoy Holi festival celebrations in Jammu. Channi Anand / AP Photo
    Indians enjoy Holi festival celebrations in Jammu. Channi Anand / AP Photo
  • A woman squints as she looks out from under her veil after being smeared in coloured powder during Holi celebrations in a lane near the Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Vivek Prakash / Reuters
    A woman squints as she looks out from under her veil after being smeared in coloured powder during Holi celebrations in a lane near the Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Vivek Prakash / Reuters
  • Indians celebrate Holi at Laxmi Narayan temple in Amritsar, India. Raminde Pal Singh / EPA
    Indians celebrate Holi at Laxmi Narayan temple in Amritsar, India. Raminde Pal Singh / EPA
  • A boy smeared with colours reacts as another boy pours water on him during Holi celebrations in Chennai. Babu / Reuters
    A boy smeared with colours reacts as another boy pours water on him during Holi celebrations in Chennai. Babu / Reuters

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In pictures: India explodes into colour for Holi

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