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   Holi 2019: Holi, the festival of colours is being celebrated on March 21, 2019. Holi marks the onset of spring, is a celebration of the vibrancy of the season and commemorates healthy harvests. Holi celebrates the victory of good over evil, the culmination of winter and brings people together signifying end of disputes and mending of estranged relations. A day before the Holi is Holika Dahan is celebrated. The Bengali "Dolyatra" marks the final celebration of a Bengali year. Interestingly, a week before the Holi, north India celebrates Laddu Mar Holi and Lath Mar Holi. Laddu Mar Holi is performed a day before Lath Mar Holi in Barsana town in Mathura, UP. (PTI Photo)

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   Foreign tourists celebrate Holi festival at Clock Tower, in Jodhpur. (PTI Photo)

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   The festival is also known as the "festival of colours" or the "festival of love". (AP Photo)

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   Lathmar holi celebrations at Sri Krishna Janamsthan temple in Mathura. (PTI Photo)

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   A woman poses during lathmar holi celebration, at Sri Krishna Janamsthan temple in Mathura. (PTI Photo)

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   Patna Women's College students smear 'gulal' during Holi celebrations, in Patna. (PTI Photo)

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   Residents of a neighbourhood in the Bihar capital this time have put up effigies of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar and Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed in the streets for torching them as part of the festive ritual. (PTI Photo)

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   Women beat men with wooden sticks during the 'Lathmar Holi' festival in Barsana. (PTI Photo)

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   Disabled children cover each other in 'gulal' during Holi celebrations in Mumbai. (Reuters Photo)

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    An artist applies colours on a foreign tourist during Holi festival celebrations, in Pushkar. (PTI Photo)

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    Young children participate in 'Dol Utsav' celebration ahead of Holi festival, in Dhanbad. (PTI Photo)

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    A seller arranges different colours of 'Gulal' at a roadside shop ahead of the upcoming 'Holi' festival, in Kolkata. (PTI Photo)

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    Priests use their mobile phones to take photographs as devotees are sprayed with colours on a temple premises during Holi celebrations in Ahmedabad. (Reuters Photo)

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    Devotees play with 'gulal' on the occasion of Holi festival celebrations at Govind Dev Ji temple, in Jaipur. (PTI Photo)

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    In Laddu Mar Holi, people dance sing and throw laddu's at each other, which is then consumed as Prasad. The following day is then celebrated as Lath Mar Holi. (PTI Photo)