Holi is upon us and this time, the festival of colours on Tuesday is sure to be celebrated with greater abandon, post Covid-19. During the pandemic, initially festivities were cancelled and then, marked in an extremely sedate way. We are all for getting our lives back but there is something that the pandemic has taught us, lessons that we need to weave into our lives on a daily basis, regardless of pandemic or other crises.

The first is safety and this should be applicable in so many ways this festival. Safety when lighting the Holi fires. Some of these are lit in building compounds near cars. One has to exercise caution and good sense. Ideally, trees should not have been felled for the wood. Only the wood that can be procured from fallen or dead trees should be used. We should in fact, send a message to venerate nature and preserve greens, during this festival.