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Dharma and SAA were celebrating Holi, a Hindu festival which welcomes spring, and is normally celebrated in mid-March after a bonfire the night before to clear up dried leaves and branches left through the winter...
...Holi] is meant to be bright, leaving behind the cold of winter," said Rohin T. Malhotra '98, co-president of Dharma. "I think a good word is 'renewal...
...touching story, but one could wish Director Nair had skipped some of the melodramatic touches. Sweet Sixteen's deflowering, for example, takes place during the festival of Holi, a spring rite in which red dye symbolic of the menstrual flow adorns the particpants. Under the auspices of a float of the elephant-headed god Ganesh, whose long trunk is considered phallic, Sweet Sixteen is pushed into a taxi to take her to her first sexual encounter...
...announce a complicated new program on a holiday. If you choose your holidays wisely, maybe pick one that follows a holi-night like New Year's Eve, chances are newspaper staffs, already working on holiday schedule and reeling from the previous night's revelry, won't be their usual analytical selves...
...preserved on those brilliantly colored and gilded scraps of paper. An 18th century rajah, ensconced on a swing, conducts an orchestra of stiffly profiled girls against the beautifully austere background of his black and white marble palace (see color page); a Mughal potentate presides over the fertility celebration of Holi, while the white-robed members of his court play at a mock battle, squirting each other with red dye from syringes...