National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Holi, a great festival organized by Hindu culture aims to enjoy nature with the natural way. It makes everyone crazy and behaves like a child, and resultant we come close to nature. It is celebrated in every spring on the full moon day of the month Phalguna (February- March). Men, women and children, regardless of age or wealth, enjoy this festival of color showing “unity in diversity”. Traditionally ‘Holi’ was use to be made of natural colored powders having medicinal significance. But now a day the chemical colors have been diverted this natural instinct of the fest and many safety issues have been found in all three forms of synthetic colors produced i.e., pastes, dry colors and water colors which are prepared from harmful substances like metal oxide, acids, mica, glass powder, alkalis, sand, soil, silica, asbestos, chalk etc. and are quite capable of causing serious skin complications and allergies. Nowadays often referred as unholy colors of ‘Holi’, artificial colors can lead to skin allergies, irritation, redness, rashes, itching, bumps and also proving a risk to an environment due to the toxic colors used in holi. This makes the fest less charming in comparison with holi celebrated in earlier days with natural colours. By advocacy of natural and eco-friendly colors, only a little to no effort to gain its eco-friendly approach is done. Thus this paper aims to recover the healthy point of view for celebrating holi by using safe, natural and eco friendly holi made by natural dye extracted from plant material containing tapioca and compared with rice flour holi containing natural dye and commercial chemical holi.
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