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My first Sunday in India brought the annual Holi festival. Part of the tradition is “playing Holi” in the late morning by smearing everyone around you with colorful powder. (Elsewhere in India they toss colored liquids at you; Mumbai is suffering from drought conditions, so it was a “dry Holi” this year.) I was advised not to bring my camera for the Holi festivities, and that was good advice. But I got this pic taken of me when we got back.