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An Indian labourer sifts coloured powder, known as “gulal”, to be used during the forthcoming spring festival of Holi, inside a factory at Fulbari village on the outskirts of Siliguri on March 6, 2017. Holi, the popular Hindu spring festival of colours is observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month, and will be celebrated on March 13 this year. (Photo by Diptendu Dutta/AFP Photo)

An Indian labourer sifts coloured powder, known as “gulal”, to be used during the forthcoming spring festival of Holi, inside a factory at Fulbari village on the outskirts of Siliguri on March 6, 2017. Holi, the popular Hindu spring festival of colours is observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month, and will be celebrated on March 13 this year. (Photo by Diptendu Dutta/AFP Photo)



A street vendor offers colour guns and gulals or colour dust for sale at a local market ahead of the “Holi Festival” in Calcutta, eastern India, 06 March 2017. Holi festival is celebrated on the full moon day and marks the beginning of the spring season. Holi festival will be celebrated on 12 March. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA)

A street vendor offers colour guns and gulals or colour dust for sale at a local market ahead of the “Holi Festival” in Calcutta, eastern India, 06 March 2017. Holi festival is celebrated on the full moon day and marks the beginning of the spring season. Holi festival will be celebrated on 12 March. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA)



A street vendor offers gulals or colour dust for sale at a local market ahead of the “Holi Festival” in Calcutta, eastern India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA)

A street vendor offers gulals or colour dust for sale at a local market ahead of the “Holi Festival” in Calcutta, eastern India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA)



A street vendor offers colour guns and gulals or colour dust for sale at a local market ahead of the “Holi Festival” in Calcutta, eastern India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA)

A street vendor offers colour guns and gulals or colour dust for sale at a local market ahead of the “Holi Festival” in Calcutta, eastern India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA)



Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. Holi is the Hindu spring festival of colors. In Barsana, people celebrate a variation of holi, called “Lathmar” Holi, which means “beating with sticks”. During the Lathmar Holi festival, the women of Barsana, the birth place of Hindu God Krishna's beloved Radha, beat the men from Nandgaon, the hometown of Hindu God Krishna, with wooden sticks in response to their efforts to throw color on them. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)

Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. Holi is the Hindu spring festival of colors. In Barsana, people celebrate a variation of holi, called “Lathmar” Holi, which means “beating with sticks”. During the Lathmar Holi festival, the women of Barsana, the birth place of Hindu God Krishna's beloved Radha, beat the men from Nandgaon, the hometown of Hindu God Krishna, with wooden sticks in response to their efforts to throw color on them. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)



Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)

Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)



Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)

Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)



Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)

Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)



Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)

Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)



Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)

Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)



Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)

Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)



Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)

Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)



Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)

Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)



Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)

Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)



Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)

Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon celebrate covered with colored powder the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, India, 06 March 2017. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)
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