Holi Festival takes place during the spring season when the countryside is bathed in a riot of colours. Matching the yellow-gold of mustard fields, the loud magenta of bougainvillea blooms and the blazing orange of the flame of the forest, people welcome the spring season by celebrating the festival with colours. They play with dry colours (gulal) and coloured water filled in ‘pichkaris’ (big syringes like instrument which squirts coloured water). India - Mathura