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9 Great Places to Play Holi 1. Mumbai Mumbai is one of the coolest places to play Holi. This is mainly due to presence of many Bollywood celebrities who organise private parties to play Holi.

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9 Great Places to Play Holi

1. Mumbai

Mumbai is one of the coolest places to play Holi. This is mainly due to presence of many Bollywood celebrities who organise private parties to play Holi.

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9 Great Places to Play Holi

2. Delhi

Delhi is city with a huge heart. It is one of the few metropolitan cities in which you cannot be out on the roads with being coloured from head to toe. The spirit of the city is such that even strangers play Holi together.

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9 Great Places to Play Holi

3. Braj Barsana, UP

Barsana is traditionally the city of Radha. The myth goes that once Krishna visited his beloved Radha at her village on Holi and teased her girlfriends. Enraged at Krishna's eve-teasing they chased him away with sticks. Lath mar Holi is still played in Barsana where women beat men with sticks.

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9 Great Places to Play Holi

4. Singapore

Singapore is a busy city but the Indian community there have found a way to celebrate Holi. They play Holi on the nearest weekend before or after the festival.

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9 Great Places to Play Holi

5. Pushkar, Rajasthan

The holy city of Pushkar is a sacred site of Hinduism. Holi is played with utmost sincerity here.

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9 Great Places to Play Holi

6. Patna

If you like to play Holi wildly, then Bihar is the place for you. People play Holi with mud, eggs and all sort of unappetising things here.

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9 Great Places to Play Holi

7. New Mexico

The Indian students in New Mexico University play Holi and also pool in there non-Indian friends.

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9 Great Places to Play Holi

8. Kolkata

In Kolkata, Holi is called 'Dol'. On the day of Holi, Kolkata celebrates 'Buri Khor'. A symbolic Holika is constructed with dry leaves, wood and cow dung. Then it is burned in a ritual fire. Bengalis play with colours on the next day.

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9 Great Places to Play Holi

9. Kathmandu, Nepal

In Nepal, women weave their sacred threads around the Holika before burning it. Holi is one of the main festivals in the Hindu nation of Nepal.

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9 Great Places to Play Holi

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