Festival of India spectator participation from other cultural and religious groups. The Holi festival or ‘festival of colours’ originates from India. The festival involves people spraying others with water or dousing each other in colour. All are welcomed to enjoy the festivities. The festivals roots and reasoning’s are contested, but ISKCON believes the festival was created in homage of the God Krishna. Krishna (the eighth avatar of Vishnu) as myth had it, would playfully spray coloured water over his friends and visa-versa. The festival takes place in February or March and acts as a new year’s, each beginning free or past grievances. Holi
Paul (given name) Paul (given name) Paul is a common masculine given name in countries and ethnicities with a Christian heritage (Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Protestantism) and, beyond Europe, in Christian religious communities throughout the world. Paul – or its variations – can be a given name or surname. The name has existed since Roman times. It derives from the Roman family name "Paulus" or "Paullus", from the Latin adjective meaning "small" or "humble". During the Classical Age it was used to distinguish the minor of two people of the same family bearing the same name. The Roman patrician family of the Gens Aemilia