HOLI

***UPDATE***

Here's a video of the biggest Holi party ever. Maybe it will give you an idea of what it's like:

Guys! It's Holi season.

THIS is holi.

It's exactly what it looks like. A bunch of people having a water fight in the form of colorful powder, colored water, colored anything on the streets and basically just Throw. It. Down.

A little background info on its origin and significance. It's a Hindu holiday which celebrates the colorful season of spring hence the colored powder. Simple/awesome, right? There's actually a deeper, more detailed explanation regarding Hindu mythology so if you're curious check it out here.

So pretty much Holi consists of singing, dancing to music blaring throughout the streets and a whole bunch of water attacking. Oh and a good chunk of people are inebriated. The holiday features a popular drank called "bhang" which pretty much is a cannabis drank. It's made up of cannabis leaves, milk, butter and other varying ingredients depending on the maker. So everyone (mostly men/grown folk) is high and/or drunk and they play in colors. Basically a countrywide legal rave in which participants range from young to old.

Okay, so I'm kind of making it sound like a trash fest, but it's not. It is, after all, a religious holiday and there are spiritual traditions involved and not everyone is maniacal. Holi is just another example of deep rooted traditions that India affectionately preserves. A lot of places here in the U.S. celebrate Holi even our very own UCO puts on a Holi event every year.

It's such a festive, exhilarating holiday that I think the world should just celebrate Holi. Really though, America is so wonderful at adopting other cultures' holidays for the sake of partying e.g. St. Patty's day and Cinco De Mayo that this would be a great addition.

In a sense, America has adopted Holi with the popular "Color Me Rad Run." So if you really find yourself wanting to participate in Holi, but have no opportunity just sign up for the Color Me Rad 5K which incidentally will be in Oklahoma on May 11.

Happy Holi, y'all! May your life be full of colors of joy, colors of love, color of friendship and colors of peace.

Confession: I've never actually celebrated Holi. Okay bye.

Famous Indian Americans

American Indian. Indian American.

Same words, different meanings all thanks to a genius of a Christopher Columbus.

American Indian- Native Americans

Indian American- Americans of Indian (India) descent. 

I fall into the latter category. 

Staying true to this blog, I bring forth to you famous American Indians. 

My first, foremost and absolute favorite representative is the hilarious Minday Kaling, most famous for her role as Kelly Kapoor on The Office (she also was a writer for the show), her book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns) and her latest tv show "The Mindy Project."


Next we have Kal Penn, better known as "Kumar" of the Harold and Kumar series. Penn also was a part of the House cast, but left for a position as Director of White House Office of Public Engagement. He had a stint on How I Met Your Mother and returned back to his political calling.


I'll leave at these two for this post and will continue later on. Plus these guys are who I like to boast most about (cause they're the most recognizable, let's be real.)