A photo of a dog in India on a scooter, its forehead daubed with colored powder, is a potent symbol of how many households treat pets as family and include them in festivities, including Holi.

Learn when it falls in 2025. When you think of the Hindu holiday Holi, you may imagine people celebrating by throwing colorful powder on each other in the streets.

Holi partiers dance while throwing colored powder on one another. In India, Holi symbolizes the end of winter, the arrival of spring, new beginnings and repairing frayed relationships. | Ashlee ...

The ancient festival has Hindu roots, but growing numbers worldwide are taking part in the celebration, which features bonfires, singing, dancing, prayer, feasting and clouds of pigmented powder.

NEW DELHI — Millions of people in South Asia celebrated Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, Friday by splashing each other with brightly colored powder, dancing to festive music and feasting on ...

A dog on a scooter with Holi powder on its forehead shows how much Indians love their pets - A photo of a dog in India on a ...

Hundreds of people danced to upbeat music on the lawn of Bethany’s Parivar Park Saturday afternoon for a Holi festival that sprawled across the grass, as more than 1,000 people celebrated ...

People threw powder on their friends or others at the celebration while they yelled “Happy Holi!” A DJ played a mixture of traditional Indian music, American pop songs and electronic dance music.

Dancing, singing and flinging fuchsia, hot pink and orange holi powder are all on tap for the Holi Celebration at City Center Bishop Ranch in San Ramon on Sunday. The public is invited to enjoy ...

MUMBAI, India (AP) — On a normal day in India, this could be an ordinary picture of a dog sitting comfortably on the back of a scooter. Only it isn’t.

The colored powder throwing has proved a popular feature of the event, said Karin Madsen, the Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District’s community events supervisor.