The Festival of Colours Holi is a popular‚ religious festival that is celebrated by Hindus. It is often referred to as the ‘festival of colours’ because of the famous ritual that it has bore. It originated in India and is celebrated near the end of the winter season‚ on the last day of the lunar month. This usually falls in late February‚ or early March. Holi is a celebration of various legends‚ such as the legend of Prahlad and Hiranyakshyap. It stated that there was once a demon king named
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Holi The Holi celebration is most commonly celebrated by the Hindu faith and is unique to its kind. It was a little out of the norm form for me because this type of thing isn’t what I have experienced ever in my life. There was a variety of colors and music that was played throughout the experience. The Hindu people allowed guests to enter their temple‚ without shoes‚ and dance and worship along with them to their music. The day that Holi is celebrated is known as the Dhuli Vandana in Sanskrit
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Easter in Russia As you may know Russia has been claimed to be a religion center during the scores of decades. Russian people honor their traditions and most of them follow the Orthodox religion. That is why Easter in Russia is one of the most important religion events for whole nation. This holiday is dedicated to the resurrection from the dead of Jesus and rooted in the Christianity history. So at this holiday tens of thousands of people flocked to the country’s churches to attend solemn midnight
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An Unforgettable Incident on my way home from school :) It was a scorchingly hot day. I was my way home from school and I was perspirating heavily‚ beads of sweat rolling of my forehead. The usual 15 minutes walk it took for me to reach home now seemed like an eternity. The sun’s unforgiving rays of light was making me in dire need of water. The trees provided little or no shade as they were few and far between. This was not unusual for a sprawling city like Kuala Lumpur‚ but they now proved more
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The air was unusually warm and humid when Jane and I took the first step out of the jeep. Sunlight filtered through the thick forest canopy. We started our research with no clues‚ but as explorers‚ our natural instinct guided us through the monstrous overgrowth. It was as though something was calling out for us‚ from deep within the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Follow your intuition‚ as Jane‚ my partner had always said. So we pressed on‚ venturing into the unknown. It took an eternity before
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UNFORGETTABLE INCIDENT The memory of that night is etched in my mind till now. After all‚ that was the most eventful day of my life‚ which changed the person I was.Everything started on 18th of November when my aunt sent a car to my mother‚ a beautiful blue Audi‚ the latest in 2004. It was raining heavily when we received the car. My brother and I were so excited because we planned to coax mom to give the new car to my brother‚ as she has already had a car and she refused to give hers to my
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OK‚ I ask you‚ is it my fault? Is it my fault the guy leaves his briefcase in the back seat of my cab? It’s not my fault. I get a cheap hot dog at a stand down the block my usual lunch‚ and I’m still tasting it when the next guy‚ a business type‚ taps on the glass and tells me there’s a briefcase on the floor and says he’s not riding in the back with an unidentified briefcase. Durban is the city of paranoia these days like terrorists spent months plotting to blow up my cab‚ who would care
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Some times the incidents that occur in our lives leave traces of their mere existence in our minds and as time passes by; although they are buried deep in our minds of infinite memories sometimes only a similar trace of that memory brings back that once buried memory on the surface of our minds. The incident starts off when I was leaving for my home. It was one of those days when nothing in the world could have gone wrong and I and my friend‚ Rameez‚ unaware of the unknown that lied before us
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Muhamad Firdaus Bin Husaini 4 Epsilon The Most Unforgettable Incident For approximately 15 years I have been lived in this hurdle-filled world‚ there is one incident that I can never forget‚ and that is the time when I fortuitously entered a ladies’ public toilet. To instigate‚ I was watching Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 2 with my family at Alamanda‚ Putrajaya. My brother and I was very eager to watch the movie. Although at that time‚ my bladder is already at its peak‚ the
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holi the festival of colours holi the festival of colours When is Holi? Holi marks the end of winter and the coming of spring. In India it can last for a week or more‚ but outside India the celebrations may only last a day or two. Holi begins on the full moon night of the month of phalguna (March or early April). Giving Thanks Holi is just before harvest and gives Hindus a chance to thank the gods for the harvest to come. Flames and fire
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