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The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

Shashank Vangari, a computer technology graduate student, covers his friend, Pranay Ravuri, a computer technology student, in pink powder during the Holi festival celebration in the North Quad Thursday afternoon.

Holi Festival 2022: A hue of humans

Rob Le Cates, Assistant Photo Editor April 21, 2022

By the end of the first Holi at Eastern since COVID-19, everyone looked like a canvas of colors dancing to Indian music celebrating the Festival of Colors on Thursday afternoon in the North Quad.  Typically...

Kishore Bandarupalli, graduate student in the school of technology is carried by a group of friends Saturday at the HOLI event in the Library Quad.

Students embrace Holi, the festival of colors

Analicia Haynes, Online Editor April 23, 2017

A cloud of colorful smoke hovered over multiple tie-dyed and smiling faces in the Library Quad Saturday afternoon as the Hindu Festival of Colors, otherwise known as Holi, unfolded. Bright, tinted powders...

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