There's no way to avoid getting smeared with colored powder, hosed with water guns or hit with sparkle-filled water balloons if you venture out of your home in India on Friday.

Millions of Indians are celebrating Holi, the festival of colours. The spring festival symbolises the victory of good over evil and marks the end of winter. People light a bonfire, smear or spray friends and family members with colour and water,

India on Friday celebrated the Hindu festival of Holi, a popular holiday in which thousands of people get together to throw colored powder and water at each other in anticipation of the arrival of spring.