To bring awareness to Indian and Hindu cultures and for students to have fun, Hindu Students Club and Asian Students’ Association held a Holi Festival of Colors, a festival celebrating the victory of good over evil. The event was held in Scammon Garden on April 3, earlier compared to previous years.

The presidents of HSC and ASA moved this Holi event earlier because of their absence during the May Project and to keep the event closer to the actual date of Holi, which was in March. With the temperature colder and windier, fewer people attended. However, students still enjoyed themselves, eating samosas and chasing each other with handfuls of gulal, Holi colored powder. 

Junior Savannah Woodson attended the event and said, “I enjoyed the food. I enjoyed the people and it was super colorful and it was just very freeing. I feel like after a long, stressful day at school, it was really nice to just, like, be free and just throw colors at people.”

Provided with white, long-sleeved shirts, students did not have to get their regular clothes dirty in order to participate in the fun. Sharpies were available to decorate the shirts with jersey numbers or drawn-on abs before the color throwing.

“Last year, somehow there were like a couple Sharpies at the event, so people were drawing on the shirts,” said Aran Malhotra, HSC president. “This year, we made sure to bring a bunch so that people could, you know, make their own designs of the shirts.”