Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ Hindus stake a historic claim to Holi in New York

Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ Hindus stake a historic claim to Holi in New York

NEW YORK (RNS) — At the 37th annual Phagwah parade in early March in Richmond Hill, Queens, spectators danced to tassa drums, tossed brightly colored powders over the crowd and smeared each other’s faces with paint, all traditional ways to celebrate the Hindu spring festival known in Indian diaspora communities as Holi but called Phagwah by Hindus in the Caribbean. But among the revelers and passing floats displaying names and logos of local bus…

Celebrating Holi in Davis

The UC Davis Indian Student Association will host an official event to commemorate the Hindu holiday   BY DEVANSHI AGNIHOTRI — arts@theaggie.org    A rainbow of colors will fill the sky and water balloons will burst with colored water, because March 14 marks the official time for the annual Hindu holiday, Holi. Celebrated as the “Festival of Colors,” Holi is celebrated on a different day each year to mark the end of winter and the start of sprin…