The festival of Holi brings a lot of fun and enjoyment for the people in India. People take extreme delight in spraying colorful water over each other using pichkari or buckets of it. Small balloons filled with colored water are also thrown over each other.

A festival which was meant for consensual teasing of social rigidities has actually become a tool for bullying women into unavoidable drenching. Watch this video and you will be shocked seeing how women are harassed in the name of Holi. These visuals caught during Holi show how the women go through terrible harassment.

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Since when did Holi become a festival where loosening of social rules only meant sexual harassment? Is it not a violation of human rights to humiliate one physically by throwing colours without his/her consent? Even if we fight back, they say, “Holi hain, madam, gussa kyu karti ho?” (It is Holi, Madam, why be angry?). Whoever is allowing this Holi mass-bullying with the pretext of mythology surely doesn’t know how to understand myths at all.

What is worse, this harassing tradition will very soon become the only version of Holi. The ones who will resist it will perhaps have to hide forever under their beds to escape colours. Holi is after all, a means of exercising uninhabited power on the streets. In a civilized society we live in, is this what women has to undergo?

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