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Hindus in India celebrated the festival of Holi on Wednesday by painting each other in bright colors, distributing sweets and squirting water at fellow festivalgoers. The holiday begins each year with a bonfire, followed the next day by paint throwing to celebrate the arrival of spring and the victory of good over evil.