holi is a spring festival that people celebrate with many colors it is an ancient Hindu religious  festival which has become popular with non-Hindus and everyone plays, chases and colours each other with dry powder and coloured water, with some carrying water guns and coloured water-filled balloons for their water fight. Anyone and everyone is fair game, friend or stranger, rich or poor, man or woman, children and elders.

the Day of the Festival of Patrick is a cultural and religious holiday celebrated annually on 17 March, the death date of the most commonly-recognised patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick  and Saint Patrick's Day was made an official Christian feast day in the early seventeenth century Saint Patrick's Day is a public holiday in Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand.