There's a reason why Holi is described as the Festival of Colours (mind you, Colours, and not Colour). In today's context, a bit of introspection won't hurt. Food for thought, perhaps...
During my childhood days, we didn't have to worry about organic/inorganic colours... Back then, even the harmful chemicals used to prepare colours were less harmful... We used to start celebrating with bright colours... Red, pink, purple, green, yellow. Then, some punk kid (me sometimes 😬) used to turn up with that dreadful black colour, which eventually turned every bucket water and every face abysmally black!!! The bathing session (rather sessions) that followed was indeed painful - with all the scrubbing, and paints running down your face, entering your eyes, blackening your teeth, etc. Turning up in school the next day with colourful/ black palms was commonplace... In fact, it was considered pretty cool... More the darkness of colour, more the cool quotient!!!
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