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7 Apr 2011 09:14:44
Indian students at the University of Bedfordshire have been celebrating more than just their country’s win in the Cricket World Cup recently.
The Holi festival was marked at the Luton campus on Saturday, 26 March, by the Students’ Union and this day also saw the inauguration of the Indian Students’ Society.
Holi is a festival of colours and is celebrated mostly in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. It is a Hindu festival where people throw coloured powder and water at each other and it is also known as Dhuli Vandana, Dhulheti, Dhulandi or Dhulendi.
Dishon Arivanandham, Vice President Democracy and Diversity for the Students’ Union, said: “The bright colours highlight diversity, with each different colour specifying different things. Celebrating Holi is a way of embracing and appreciating the differences among people.
“People forget their racial differences and change each other by throwing different colours. It could be looked at as a way of saying ‘we all are one and we all look the same when we are filled with colours’.”
More than 200 students from various nationalities joined in the fun, organised in conjunction with the Treehouse chaplaincy, with many other interested onlookers.
After some refreshments and the inauguration of the Indian Students’ Society, the chaplain at the Luton campus, Revd Andrew Goodman, gave a welcome speech followed by Holi play, music and dance.
