On this, the second day of the festival, Rangwali Holi, the custom is to grab fists full of sticky, vividly colored, pastel paint powder and throw it at the face, body, and clothing of any person within range. As we drive to the hospital, clouds of colored powder explode on the windshield: blue for Krishna, the god of love; green for rebirth and new beginnings; red for marriage and fertility; and apparently, for when the going gets fancy, yellow, the color of turmeric. It is a free-for-all. No one is spared. Every caste, gender, and age participates, often with paint loaded into squirt guns
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