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Photos: How India Celebrated Holi This Year

Photos: How India Celebrated Holi This Year
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As evening sets in over India, the festival of colours comes to a close. Even so, it leaves India in a vibrant colourful, and euphoric mood with higher expectations for 2016. Here's a kaleidoscopic collection of one of India's most beautiful festivals, and how it was celebrated this year.

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