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Summary Festivities to mark the north Indian Hindu festival of colours named Holi that hails the onset of summer commenced at Mathura and Brindavan in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh on the day of Basant Panchami (spring festival) that was celebrated on Tuesday.
These curtain-raiser festivities would conclude on March 20. Ashish Krishna Goswami, a priest at the Iskon temple said that devotees throng to the temple to celebrate the festival with Lord Krishna. From today, Holi festivities begin in Shridham Vrinadavan and in whole Brij Kshetra (Brij, the holy land of Lord Krishna). Devotees come to Shridham Vrindavan for the blessing of God in the form of colours, said Ashish Krishna Goswami. Thousand of devotes throng to the famous Lord Krishna temple and began the festival of colour with great gusto.
