“I’m pledging to#KhulKeKheloHoli this year by sharing my Holi memories at BlogAdda in association with Parachute Advansed.”


We may love getting high on 'bhang' on every Holi now, but the innocence of celebrating the festival as kids can never really be forgotten. How we wish we could go back in time and play Holijust like we did as little kids. Here are 15Holi memories from our childhood we can never forget!

1. Come March and you could literally smell the festivity in the air. Shops sprawled out on the streets with Holi gift hampers, colours, water balloons and, of course, those fancy water guns. You could smell the aromatic gulaals everywhere! Going Holi shopping with parents, days in advance, was the best thing ever!

2. Holi was never a one-day affair. Celebrations started around a week in advance and the whole locality lived under the delightful terror of being attacked by the notorious kids, hiding behind parapets and staircases, armed with water balloons.

3. Plans were made the night before and the excitement made it impossible to sleep. And still, we woke up early in the morning and prepared countless water balloons, stocking them up in tubs and buckets, trying our best to not waste even one. It literally hurt when you found most balloons in those packets to be defective.

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4. Holi was equally about scrumptious delights. Binging on gujiyas till the stomach hurt is a memory every 90s kid would relate to. Its mention is enough to get us drooling even now!

5. Relatives, neighbours and family friends kickstarted the day by visiting each other, though the way they wished each other was just too unbelievably civil as compared to how we kids celebrated it!

6. Hiding behind the parapets of balconies and terraces, we played the most mischievous pranks on passers-by. Sometimes, we got scolded too but seeing people react like crazy after being drenched by buckets full of water was totally worth it. Those with terraces had the best Holi strategies ever.

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7. Holi was no less than a war; you could be shot down by a water balloon if you stepped out in your balcony even for a second. Terrace wars were at their peak, and you always ended up dirtying the whole house, despite all the warnings your mother gave you the whole week. That one reply, 'bura na mano Holi hai' always saved us!

8. We all had that one friend who had a huge courtyard or a terrace where everybody gathered to play Holi. There was always that one kid who was targeted the most. If you grew up in a DDA housing, you will also remember stealing water from your neighbour's water tank!

9. Every colony had rival gangs and Holi was wartime. It was the time when we ganged up against each other and found newer ways to defeat the rivals. But, of course, by the end of it all, we were all a bunch of kids having the best time of our lives together. It all ended in our friendships becoming only stronger.

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10. Thanks to Bollywood, we had new Holi songs each year. Songs, food, unlimited supply of water - what else could we have asked for!

11. No matter how early we ran out of water balloons, the celebrations still lasted till the sun went down. Eggs, dirty water, sludge and what not - we made sure our arms and ammunitions never ended.

12. The winters would have just gone by, but the summers hadn't arrived either. Water only made the wind feel colder. Even though we were shivering throughout, it made no difference to our enthusiasm. Cold, fever? Bring it on! There was no way we were giving up a chance to celebrate Holi.

13. Just when you thought it was over, and you were standing in the sun, trying to dry yourself up, came a new person to the party with a personal agenda of spraying everybody present with his water gun. And, the celebration began again!

14. The madness continued even post Holi. We all stocked up balloons for days to come and left no opportunity of aiming at passers-by who looked stunned to death! Of course, we would instantly duck behind our balcony parapets for fear of being caught.

15. The amount of fun you had was directly proportional to the amount of colour on your skin and nails the next day in school. Wherever you looked, you saw monsters with blue-purple ears and orange fingers. Yes, our mothers advised us to apply oil on our skin and hair before playing Holi for a reas