Go herbal this Holi: Dikshit urges Delhiites
March 15th, 2011 - 7:20 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, March 15 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Tuesday urged people to celebrate the festival of Holi with herbal colours which can be easily made at home with rose petals, besan (gram flour), mint and turmeric.
“Natural colours can be made from flowers, fruits and vegetable extracts. Play Holi with natural colours, these are safe, economical, eco-friendly and can be easily made at home,” said Dikshit, in an advertisement published in a daily.
According to the chief minister’s office, many similar advertisements would be released in newspapers and television channels in the run up to the festival of colours March 20, informing people the ease with which they could make their own colours at home.
According to the advertisement, the colour red can be obtained by boiling peels of red pomegranate in water or by crushing dry red rose petals. Yellow can be made by crushing dry marigold flower petals or turmeric and besan powder mixed in water.
A fine paste of mint, spinach and leaves or dry mehendi powder can be mixed together to get the colour green, and blue can be made with berries of indigo plant or crushed dry Jacaranda flowers.
Magenta colour can be attained from grated beetroot or peeled onions soaked in water.
“The natural Holi colours are available at both Dilli Haats and at select schools in the city,” informed the advertisement.
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