Crowds of students joined in the colourful celebrations for Holi, the Hindu festival of spring.
Hundreds of students from across De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) packed into Bede Park for the festival, organised by DMU Indian Society and DMU Square Mile, which works to share the skills of staff and students with the community. Head over to our Facebook gallery to see all our photographs of the event.
Krishan Nama, president of DMU Indian Society, said: “It’s great to see so many people at this free event. It is a tremendous atmosphere and so many
different people coming to join in.
“We appreciate all that DMU is doing to support g us, through the Square Mile and the international office, as well as DSU for funding us and the council for giving us this park to use.
“It’s grown so much over the three years we have run this. In the first year we had 100, the next year there was 200 and today we have had up to 500.”
De Montfort Students’ Union provided 500 packets of coloured powder which the students used to decorate each other. The bright colours signify the triumph of light over dark.
Photography student Jess, Performing Arts student Jenna and Anna, a Biomedical Science student, joined in, decorating each other with colours. “It’s such a nice event,” said Jenna. “It’s great to see people having so much fun.”
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Accounting and Finance graduate Sadeep had taken half a day off work to come and join in. “I’ve been here every year since it started and did not want to miss it!” he said. “It’s great to see it getting bigger and bigger.”
Xu Yang, Hu Hanru and W Zhang found out about it through DMU’s student pages. “It is so much fun, we have never done this before,” said Xu. “It is amazing,” added Hu.
Posted on Monday 9 March 2015