Holi Celebration!

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Holi at the Varanasi Centre was a blast! We were lucky to welcome volunteers from LeapNow group and the Lawrenceville School from the United States, and the children had great fun attacking each other and the visitors with fistfuls of powdered pigments. By the end, all were unrecognizable shades of pink, green, blue and orange, and little clouds of colour still wafted through the air. The pictures below can only begin to reveal the absolute mayhem of the day!















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