BHOPAL: After two years of muted festivities due to Covif-19, people came out of their homes in large numbers on Friday to celebrate Holi in Madhya Pradesh with traditional fervour in an environment largely free of curbs due to an ebbing third wave of the pandemic.
People gathered in big numbers and sprayed colours mixed with water, applied ‘gulal' on each other's faces and later distributed sweets as cries of 'Holi hai' reverberated the streets. For the last two years, coronavirus had played spoilsport on Holi and forced citizens to remain indoors to check the spread of the infection.
