Back then, we didn't have to worry about organic/inorganic colours during Holi... Even the harmful chemicals used were not that toxic... We used to start the celebration with bright colours... Red, pink, purple, green, yellow. Then, some punk kid (yours truly, most of the times 😬) used to turn up with that dreadful black colour (known as "Badure Rong" in Bengali), which eventually turned all the faces and the colourful water in the buckets abysmally black!!!
The bathing session (rather sessions) that followed was indeed painful - with all the scrubbing, rinsing, and washing... Shampoo/Soap mixed with paints running down your face, entering your eyes (unbearable 😖😖😖), blackening your teeth, etc. One body part that was almost impossible to clean in the first attempt was the back of the ears!!! Turning up in school the next day with colourful/black palms was commonplace... In fact, it was considered extremely cool... Darker the colour of your palms, more the cool quotient!!!
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