Hopkins celebrates Hindu festival of Holi
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers a campus celebration of the Hindu festival of Holi.
- The News-Letter reported that students celebrated Holi on the Beach with free shirts, Indian food, music and colored powder, in an event organized by HSC and AID.
- The paper explained that Holi marks the arrival of spring and is also called the “Festival of Colors” or the “Festival of Sharing Love.”
- The article says Vamsi Chunduru discussed how HSC and AID organized the event and moved it from March to April for better weather.
- The reporter writes that Chunduru said the event had a good atmosphere, while Pranshu Bhardwaj said Blue Jay Bhangra’s dance performance was arranged informally and Lalit Varada said the event met his expectations.