Sonia celebrates holi with special children

: Holi is one festival Indians love to celebrate wherever they are.
Those in the United States are all set to have a great time on Sunday
to mark the festival of colours.

The Gujarati Society of central Florida will organise a Holi get-
together at a park in Orlando on Sunday. The event will start with a
motorcade from Shri Lakshmi Narayan Mandir, a Hindu temple, and
culminate at the park at noon, according to the online edition of
'Orlando Sentinel'.

Holi is the annual and popular Hindu spring festival. It is celebrated
during the later part of February or early March.

"It is a day for fun," Hari Singh of the Gujarati Society said.

Similar celebrations are also planned in the Richmond Hill area of New
York City on Sunday.

In Richmond, the day is celebrated as Phagwah, the Indo-Caribbean
Hindu celebration of New Year. Indo-Caribbean immigrants brought the
festival here from Guyana and Trinidad.

Indian migrants who went to the Caribbean as labourers in the 19th and
early 20th centuries celebrate Holi in Guyana, Surinam and Trinidad.
The festival flourished there and became naturalised as Phagwah.

During the 1970s many Guyanese who migrated to the US brought the
Phagwah tradition to their new home.

The Phagwah parade in Richmond Hill is one of the biggest celebrations
in North America. If it's a warm day, some 25,000 people are expected
to join the 2007 parade, according to reports.

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