FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: Children smeared with colours look on as they celebrate 'Holi' in Kolkata. Photo: AP
PINK SHOWER: Women celebrate at Kamanbazar, Khammam. Photo: G.N. Rao
PURPLE HAZE: A girl throws coloured powder as she joins in the Holi celebrations in Vrindavan. Photo: AP
SIMPLE PLEASURES: Women rub colour on each other in Tirupati. Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar
'HOLI' FIRE: Marwari women offering pooja near 'holika', a bonfire that signifies the triumph of good over evil, in Visakhapatnam on Feb. 28, 2010. Photo: K.R. Deepak
CAMARADERIE: CRPF policemen with Holi colours on their faces at a camp in Srinagar. Photo: Nissar Ahmad
SANDAL SMILES: Women playing Holi with sandal paste at the Arya Samaj Holi Mangal Milan in New Delhi. Photo: Sandeep Saxena
BLUSHING WITH COLOURS: A young girl enjoys the colours of Holi in Bangalore. Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy
MYRIAD HUES: Tribal children celebrate Holi at Kalinga Institute of Social Science, Bhubaneswar. Photo: Ashoke Chakrabarty
COLOURS GALORE: A vendor sells colours and water guns (Pichkari) on the eve of 'Holi', at Pahar Ganj in New Delhi on Sunday. Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
HOLI COW: A devotee prays to a cow smeared with colours at the Kamakhya temple in Guwahati. Photo: AP
COLOURS OF KRISHNA: Devotees smeared with colour celebrate Holi at the Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan. The legend goes that the Hindu god Krishna played Holi with his consort Radha. Photo: AP
ACROSS BORDERS: A member of the Pakistani Hindu community celebrates the Hindu festival of colour in Karachi, Pakistan Photo: AP
KRISHNA IN PLAY: Brij artists celebrating Holi with flowers at Sri Siddhdata Ashram in Faridabad. Photo: PTI
SMOKY RED: Girls celebrating Holi in Indore. Photo: PTI
SAFFRON PIETY: Sadhus and Sadhvis smear each other with colour on the banks of river Sangam during Holi celebrations in Allahabad. Photo: PTI
BURNING EVIL: Prayers offered to 'Holika' on the eve of 'Holi' in Hyderabad on Sunday. Photo: Nagara Gopal