Holi 2025: The festival of Holi is celebrated in different ways across the country. The festival of colors is a beautiful amalgamation of beliefs and traditions. This festival is celebrated in different ways across the country. In some places, Holi is played with flowers, while in other places people are showered with sticks. Do you know that Holi is also played with burning embers of fire? It may be difficult to believe this, but there are many places in the country where Holi is played in such a unique way. This time the festival of Holi will be celebrated on March 14. Let's know about some such unique Holi...

Holi is played uniquely in many areas of Malwa in Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. There is a tradition of throwing burning embers at each other on the day of Holi. It is believed that by doing this the demoness Holika dies.

They find a life partner on Holi.

The Bhil tribals of Madhya Pradesh have a tradition of finding a life partner on the day of Holi. However, this practice is also quite fun. A market is set up here on this day. In this market, boys and girls come to find their life partners. After this, these tribal boys apply gulaal to the girl of their choice while dancing and playing a special kind of musical instrument. If the girl also likes the boy, she applies gulaal to the boy. After the consent of both, the boy elopes with the girl and marries her.

Mourning Holi is played here.

People of Chovatiya Joshi caste of Pushkarna Brahmin of Rajasthan do not celebrate Holi. These people mourn on the day of Holi. It is like someone has died in the house. An old story is told behind doing this. It is said that years ago, a woman of this tribe was doing the parikrama of Holika on the day of Holika Dahan. She also had her child in her hand, but that child slipped and fell in the fire. To save the child, the woman also jumped into the fire and both died. While dying, the woman said that now do not celebrate Holi with joy. Since then this tradition has been followed even today.

People walk on the ashes of Holika Dahan.

In Banswara of Rajasthan, the tribes have a tradition of walking on the ashes of Holika Dahan. Here people walk on the fire buried inside the ashes. Along with this, there is a tradition of pelting stones at each other. There is a belief behind this tradition that the blood that comes out of playing such Holi makes the future of a person better.

Holi is not celebrated here.

People do not celebrate Holi in Dusarpur village of Kaithal district of Haryana. It is said that this village was cursed by a Baba. Actually, after getting angry with a person in the village, the saint jumped into the fire of Holika and gave up his life. The burning Baba cursed the village. He said that if Holi is celebrated here now, it will be a bad omen. Due to this fear, Holi was never celebrated after years passed.

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