Visakhapatnam: Transcending barriers, communities come together to smear colours!

Visakhapatnam: Transcending barriers of religion, people from across communities come together to celebrate the festival of colours, embodying the triumph of good over evil. Beyond heralding the arrival of spring, celebration of Holi represents happiness, joy, harmony, unity and positivity. Celebrating the festival of colours as an extended family, some of the residents’ welfare associations plan to organise a party in their apartment complex, involving residents of all age groups.

Combining celebration with promoting wellness, artist Moka Vijay Kumar came up with a millet-based painting captioned as ‘Holi’s beauty, millet health-a celebration of wellness’. By incorporating ‘colourful’ millets in day-to-day life, the artist opined, people could lead a healthier life.

In the meantime, event managers get busy to host thematic parties on the occasion. Packing fun and entertainment, Rays Entertainments in collaboration with Dreams Entertainment is hosting ‘Rang Barse’ at Radisson Blu on Monday. From ravishing rain dance to dazzling dhol and DJ, the celebration here is scheduled to commence at 10 am and continue till 4 pm.

As people lay their hands on colours, experts come up with a list of ‘dos and don’ts’ cautioning revellers. As synthetic colours contain harmful chemicals such as lead, chromium and mercury, experts at LV Prasad Eye Institute mention that such harsh colours will cause eye irritation, redness and in some cases even corneal damage.

Recommending safe practices, they exhort revellers to go for organic gulaal instead to avoid eye irritation.

During celebrations, the experts at LVPEI underline the need to protect eyes from strong splashes by wearing sunglasses and avoid wearing lenses to prevent colour build-up that could

affect eyes.

Keeping eyes moist by drinking plenty of water, playing gently to avoid colours getting into eyes, finding shaded spots for celebration to minimise direct exposure to sunlight are some of the safe practices they suggest.

The stress was also on protecting hair and skin from harsh colours by applying a generous amount of sunscreen to the skin and cold-pressed oil or serum to hair.