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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)
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