Flipboard Culture Desk<p>Today, Hindus around the world celebrate Holi, the festival of colors, and nowhere is it more raucous than in India. Kids and grownups filled their water balloons and water guns yesterday, and have packets of colored powder ready to ambush friends, neighbors and strangers. "If you're spotlessly clean, you're a target," write Mithil Aggarwal and Max Butterworth for NBC. Here's their story about the meaning of the festival and how it is celebrated — complete with some absolutely stunning photography.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/riam1o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/riam1o</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Holi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holi</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Hinduism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hinduism</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Hindu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hindu</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Festivals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Festivals</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Lifestyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lifestyle</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Photographs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photographs</span></a></p>