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Rang Raas
FESTIVAL OF COLORS
India is a land of diverse culture – for every ten miles the road map sets for different ethnicities, traditions, and set of ideologies that sustain in harmony within our rich country. The festival has its origin from many stories, when one moves across different states from North to South and East to west the legends change but what remains at the core is the supremacy of ‘Good over Evil’. The kaleidoscope of culture and tradition is truly represented in the spirit of Holi – the festival of colours. This colourful rendezvous is a colour smearing and merrymaking event that marks the onset of the spring season end of winter bringing in the air the fragrance of flowers and aura of warmth and happiness ; also symbolises that good will prevail upon evil in the long run.
SIGNIFICANCE OF COLORS
Colour is embedded in the Indian culture and holds a lot of importance, our rituals and traditions revolve around colour. Our gorgeous textiles, exotic flowers, exuberant advertising billboards, hand-painted rickshaws and trucks covered with lights, patterns and brightly painted pictures of gods, India is one of the most colourful places on the planet. Hence, it is no surprise there’s a festival dedicated to it where each colour represent, signify and glorify the spirit of life.
The rainbow of colours, symbolise union and strength; it’s that one day when the elderly and young frolic and participate or rather loose themselves to the pleasures of colours and to the tunes of Thumris. The through prepping in coconut oil and wearing dedicated crisp whites for the festivities is a commitment in itself, providing a primed blank canvas as a sincere invitation to be smeared in the passionate GULAAL and drowned in tinted water and ridding you of ill-will and hatred and getting intoxicated with love for everyone.
India’s history is embedded in colour which is one of the many things we at Frontier Raas share in common with a land that oozes of colourful traditions and culture. The sense of homeliness and familiarity of Indian aesthetics bud amongst us while we nurture and carefully cultivate it for generations to come.
RANG FR KE SANG
With each day passing the world is adopting sustainable ways of living and Frontier Raas supports this ideology and philosophy of adopting our traditional roots and still living vivaciously.
These days, when the market is mostly flooded with synthetic colours, it becomes our responsibility to consciously choose substances that are green and nature friendly and that they do not comprise of toxic components such as lead oxide, diesel, chromium iodine, and copper sulphate which lead to rashes on the skin, allergies, pigmentation, and eye irritation.
While Holi can be fun for us, it is actually harmful to animals especially pets and stray animals. Colours that are harmful to our skin, cause equal discomfort to animals. Stray dogs and cats are the ones who are most exposed to this abuse. Follow century-old traditions in an eco-friendly way filled with love and joy.
HOMEGROWN TESU KE RANG
Traditionally, Holi colours were derived from natural sources and are either particulate powders or liquid splashes. The colour used to play Holi in ancient India was extracted from Tesu flowers which bloom during the spring season that were and are found all over the Indian subcontinent. Tesu Flowers are also known as the flame of the forest and is the flower of the Palash tree. The flowers are soaked overnight in water and can also be boiled to obtain fragrant yellowish – orange coloured water. The dried flowers can be dried and powdered for an orange powder.
The nature is a solution as it provides everything we just have to ask the right questions and look for answers at the right places and only then can good prevail over evil.