Workers clean the remnants of Holi celebrations at the Bankey Bihari Temple on Saturday.
A girl reacts during the celebrations of Holi in the southern city of Hyderabad on Monday.
Girls smeared with colored powder react as they celebrate Holi in the southern Indian city of Chennai Monday.
Visually impaired children play with colored water during Holi festivities at a school for the blind in Hyderabad on Monday.
Men and women take part in huranga, a game played between men and women a day after Holi, in Dauji temple near the northern Indian city of Mathura on Tuesday.
An Indian woman smeared with colors and water dances as she celebrates the Holi festival in Mumbai on Monday.
People, their faces smeared with colored powder, pose for a photograph during Holi festivities in Gauhati, India, Monday.
Hindu devotees play with color during celebrations of Holi, the Festival of Colors, in the streets near the Bankey Bihari Temple on Monday in Vrindavan, India. The festival is meant to welcome spring and win the blessings of gods for good harvests and fertility of the land. The tradition of playing with colors on Holi draws its roots from a legend of Radha and the Hindu god Krishna. It is believed that young Krishna was jealous of Radha's fair complexion. Krishna questioned his mother Yashoda on the darkness of his own complexion. Yashoda teasingly asked him to color Radha's face in whichever color he wanted. The tradition of applying color on one's beloved is being religiously followed to this date.
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