Happy Holi 2017: Google celebrated the festival of colours with a doodle.
Today Goggle is celebrating Holi with a colourful doodle. The letters of the Google doodle are taking on a fresh set of
colors in honor of this festival. Coinciding with the arrival of spring, the vibrant celebration looks a lot like the Doodle: people run around happily covering each other in a rainbow of powdery hues. Holi has been a festival that celebrates the victory of
good over evil and Google has managed to capture this tradition in their animated doodle.
The Google doodle has a bunch of people splashing the letters in red, blue, green purple and yellow as they rush past in search of possibly their next prey. Just as they've explained it themselves, "Amid the cloud of red, blue, yellow, green, and everything in between, festival-goers can often be found laughing, singing, and dancing in the streets."
The
celebration of Holi has various religious beliefs and mythological stories associated with it. It lasts for two days. The first day is known as Holika Dahan or Chhoti Holi and the second as
Rangwali Holi, Dhuleti, Dhulandi or Dhulivandan.
The first day, or Chhoti Holi, was celebrated on Sunday, when people lit the traditional bonfire in the evening to symbolise Holika Dahan, a story which finds its roots in Hindu mythology. On the second day, the festival of Holi is celebrated, wherein people smear each other in colours, a tradition that is supposed to signify the colour-play between Lord Krishna and the gopis.
Holi is also celebrated as the triumph of a devotee. As the legend depicts that anybody, howsoever strong, cannot harm a true devotee. And, those who dare torture a true devotee of god shall be reduced to ashes.