Holi festival today

Holi, a Hindu religious festival of colours, will be celebrated across the country today with due religious fervour and much enthusiasm.

The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, and for many a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and is also celebrated as a thanksgiving for a good harvest. The festival is also known as Dol Purnima (full moon day).

Marking the festival, devotees will visit shrines, temples and offer colours (abir) at the feet of Idols of the God Sri Krishna and Goddess Sri Radhika.

Abir Khela is a significant part of the festival which means throwing of abir, a kind of perfumed and pink coloured powder and other colorful powders by revelers, on each other making festival-goers coated in colour to make the extravaganza enthusiastic.

Under the arrangement of Mahanagar Sarbajanin Puja Committee, religious songs in praise of lord Krishna and other rituals, including worshiping of lord Krishna, will begin in the morning at Dhakeshwari National Temple on the occasion of Dol Purnima.

Abir will be offered at the feet of idols of Radha Krishna and Chaitanyadeb. Devotees will also offer the Abir to god and goddess.

Besides, the festival will be celebrated at different temples across the country, including capital Dhaka.