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The festival of colours&nbsp;Holi is just around the corner and while we are all very excited about the long weekend and all we are going to have this week.

But before all that, we must also know the&nbsp;significance of the festival and why it is celebrated.

Like all of Hindu festival, Holi also signifies victory of good over evil, justice over injustice. It is celebrated in Falgun month of Hindi calendar which falls between the end of February and the middle of March in the general calendar.

The festival is commonly celebrated as a Two-day festival but traditionally it is a three-day festival.

It starts with Holi Purnima then followed with &#39;Puno&#39;&nbsp;or Holika Dahan, and the third is Dhulandi the last and final day of the celebrations.&nbsp;

There are many reasons for celebrating this festival among them is a very common legend of Prahlada and king Hiranyakaship.

According to the legend in Bhagwata Purana an Asur king Hrianyakaship grew arrogant thinking he was a god due to the boons he received from the gods.

Hrianyakaship demanded to be to worship as a god from his people but his own son was a devotee of Vishnu and refused to worship his own father.

To make Prahlad understand of his highness, Hrianyakaship gave various kind of punishment to his son. Finally, he tricked his son to sit on a pyre with his aunt Holika thinking that Prahlad would get burned and Holika would be saved but due to&nbsp;Prahald&#39;s faith, dedications and purity of his heart&nbsp;he was saved from the fire instead his aunt Holika was burned and died; signifying win of justice over injustice.

Since then the second day of Holi is celebrated as Holi Dahan People with their families take five rounds of the bonfire to seek the blessing of God in the evening of Holika Dahan.

It is also celebrated as a commemoration of the divine love of Radha and Krishna.

&nbsp;Another legend that surrounds the festival is that Krishna was a dark-skinned boy and it is said that conscious Krishna about his skin colour used to complain to his mother regarding whether fair skinned Radha would like him or not.

His mother, tired of the questions asked Krishna to colours Radha&#39;s face with any colour he wanted.&nbsp;

Ever since the playful colouring of Radha&#39;s face has been commemorated as Holi.

The Holi is&nbsp;such an ancient Hindu festival that it&#39;s being celebrated since Krishna&#39;s time. It is also mentioned in the 7th-century Sanskrit drama Ratnavali as well.&nbsp;

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Like all of Hindu festival, Holi also signifies victory of good over evil, justice over injustice

The festival of colours Holi is just around the corner and while we are all very excited about the long weekend and all we are going to have this week. But before all that, we must also know the significance of the festival and why it is celebrated. Like all of Hindu festival, Holi also signifies victory of good over evil, justice over injustice. It is celebrated in Falgun month of Hindi calendar which falls between the end of February and the middle of March in the general calendar. The festival is commonly celebrated as a Two-day festival but traditionally it is a three-day festival. It starts with Holi Purnima then followed with 'Puno' or Holika Dahan, and the third is Dhulandi the last and final day of the celebrations. There are many reasons for celebrating this festival among them is a very common legend of Prahlada and king Hiranyakaship. According to the legend in Bhagwata Purana an Asur king Hrianyakaship grew arrogant thinking he was a god due to the boons he received from the gods. Hrianyakaship demanded to be to worship as a god from his people but his own son was a devotee of Vishnu and refused to worship his own father. To make Prahlad understand of his highness, Hrianyakaship gave various kind of punishment to his son. Finally, he tricked his son to sit on a pyre with his aunt Holika thinking that Prahlad would get burned and Holika would be saved but due to Prahald's faith, dedications and purity of his heart he was saved from the fire instead his aunt Holika was burned and died; signifying win of justice over injustice. Since then the second day of Holi is celebrated as Holi Dahan People with their families take five rounds of the bonfire to seek the blessing of God in the evening of Holika Dahan. It is also celebrated as a commemoration of the divine love of Radha and Krishna. Another legend that surrounds the festival is that Krishna was a dark-skinned boy and it is said that conscious Krishna about his skin colour used to complain to his mother regarding whether fair skinned Radha would like him or not. His mother, tired of the questions asked Krishna to colours Radha's face with any colour he wanted. Ever since the playful colouring of Radha's face has been commemorated as Holi. The Holi is such an ancient Hindu festival that it's being celebrated since Krishna's time. It is also mentioned in the 7th-century Sanskrit drama Ratnavali as well.

How Holi got associated with colours from Hiranyakashyap myth

Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, who were yesterday <a href="http://www.wionews.com/india-news/2008-aarushi-murder-case-timeline-22357">acquitted by the Allahabad High Court of the charge of murdering their daughter </a>and domestic help Hemraj are likely to be released from a prison in Ghaziabad at 4 pm today, their lawyer said.

The couple will be released once the prison authorities receive the court order, the jailer confirmed.

&quot;We have not received the court order as yet. We will release them once we get it,&quot; Dasna Jail Superintendent Dadhiram Maurya told reporters here.

&quot;I think release orders will be received by jail superintendent by afternoon and the Talwars will be released by 4 pm,&quot;&nbsp;the Talwars&#39; lawyer, Tanveer A Mir told ANI.

The couple have been serving life imprisonment in Dasna jail since 2013, after they were held guilty of murdering their daughter by a CBI court.

The jailer told PTI there were two methods to complete the process of releasing a prisoner from jail.

&quot;Either the Allahabad High Court sends its order copy directly to jail authorities or it is sent through the CBI court concerned which awarded them life sentence,&quot; he said.

The Allahabad High Court had yesterday acquitted the Talwars of the 2008 sensational murder <a href="http://www.wionews.com/india-news/aarushi-talwar-murder-case-what-allahabad-hc-said-while-acquitting-talwars-22342">on the grounds that neither the circumstances nor the evidence </a><a href="http://www.wionews.com/india-news/aarushi-talwar-murder-case-what-allahabad-hc-said-while-acquitting-talwars-22342">was</a><a href="http://www.wionews.com/india-news/aarushi-talwar-murder-case-what-allahabad-hc-said-while-acquitting-talwars-22342"> enough</a> to hold them guilty.

The verdict ends, at least for now, the nine-year ordeal of the Noida couple who were sentenced to life by a Ghaziabad CBI court on November 28, 2013.

With the acquittal, the central question in the bizarre mystery resurfaces - <a href="http://www.wionews.com/india-news/court-judgement-leaves-twitter-clueless-users-ask-who-killed-aarushi-22348">who killed the 14-year-old teenager and the 45-year-old</a>&nbsp;domestic help.

&quot;There is a strong possibility that (the) incident was caused by some outsider,&quot; a bench comprising justices B K Narayana and A K Mishra had said, upholding the Talwars&#39; appeal against the CBI court verdict.&nbsp; 
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Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, who were yesterday acquitted by the Allahabad High Court of the charge of murdering their daughter and domestic help Hemraj are likely to be released from a prison in Ghaziabad at 4 pm today, their lawyer said. The couple will be released once the prison authorities receive the court order, the jailer confirmed. "We have not received the court order as yet. We will release them once we get it," Dasna Jail Superintendent Dadhiram Maurya told reporters here. "I think release orders will be received by jail superintendent by afternoon and the Talwars will be released by 4 pm," the Talwars' lawyer, Tanveer A Mir told ANI. The couple have been serving life imprisonment in Dasna jail since 2013, after they were held guilty of murdering their daughter by a CBI court. The jailer told PTI there were two methods to complete the process of releasing a prisoner from jail. "Either the Allahabad High Court sends its order copy directly to jail authorities or it is sent through the CBI court concerned which awarded them life sentence," he said. The Allahabad High Court had yesterday acquitted the Talwars of the 2008 sensational murder on the grounds that neither the circumstances nor the evidence was enough to hold them guilty. The verdict ends, at least for now, the nine-year ordeal of the Noida couple who were sentenced to life by a Ghaziabad CBI court on November 28, 2013. With the acquittal, the central question in the bizarre mystery resurfaces - who killed the 14-year-old teenager and the 45-year-old domestic help. "There is a strong possibility that (the) incident was caused by some outsider," a bench comprising justices B K Narayana and A K Mishra had said, upholding the Talwars' appeal against the CBI court verdict.

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Gravitas: India celebrates Dussehra; the victory of good over evil

How Holi got associated with colours from Hiranyakashyap myth

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