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2008/03/21

The colours of spring

I sent out two perfectly clean pretty girls in the morning to play holi and look what came back
This one was exhausted and uniformly coated with what looked like tar .Only the whites of her eyes and her teeth showed white

The white walls of the stairwell threw the blackness into relief

Th younger one was more colourful



It took Tani about an hour to scrub out most of the muck from her face and arms but the less said about her older sister the better. She went to sleep marginally clean than when she had walked in .

18 comments:

Poorna Banerjee said...

heehee. i slept all day long. best thing to do.

hillgrandmom said...

you know we don't have Holi here--probably because we have no spring!

dipali said...

We just did a ritual bit of Holi-playing this year- no kids to enjoy it with. We were out last evening and saw lots and lots of colour stained people.

Usha said...

MY GOD!
But I must say they look lovely especially the colours on tani's face.
Now I am thinking of the state of your bathroom floors!

Unknown said...

@Panu - Oh wise one I belong to your school and subscribe to your philosophy
@HHG - Aw you must come North of the Vindhyas next year
@Tygr - Venerable One - Hola !I do agree with you - next year we shall sit together over a coffee and shake our heads over such to dos
@Onedia - Come to India !
@Dipali - we did the same !
@Usha - DO NOT talk of bathrooms, soaps and shampoos .Anyway - its just once a year.

Bong Mom said...

Ure babba, ki bhishon rong kheleche era

Maryam in Marrakesh said...

oh yay, that is *so* fun. I love holi. I would have come back covered from head to toe, too!

iz said...

Awwwwwwwwwwww!

Shaapla said...

The older one took some pleasure rubbing colour on my teeth, cause they were too white.

Unknown said...

@Maryam - I can imagine
@Iz - Awwww ?
@Shapla - I hope you gave back as good as you got !

La delirante said...

Wow, that looks like a lot of fun! By the way, I love the new "skin" of your blog :)

Unknown said...

Oh yes its a great festival ! Very colourful and full of 'masti' - that's loaded fun.
That's not a new skin ( sob) that's the header and its not working - Im not that good with html!

Dotm said...

I had never heard of Holi, but it sure looked like your daughters had a real fun time. Their pretty features still showed thru all the coloring on their faces. Cute girls.

Bong Mom said...

Chobi na thakle emniy jodi recipe post korte paro tomar blog e ar amake link pathate paro tahole o hobey

Elendil said...

Haha.. I described the older one as 'a prosperous African tribal leader' in my holi post. And I contributed to making her look like that! *proud*

Mystic Margarita said...

Looks like your girls had a load of fun. :) Commented on your TV nostalgia post - you wrote about something very close to my heart - waiting for the next installmets :)

A Muser said...

Looks like they had a blast! What wonderful pictures!

Roop Rai said...

:D thanks for a great laugh!