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Holi photo
[edit]Holi photo Bansi ~2026-12491-46 (talk) 14:58, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
- What do you mean?
- Speederzzz (Talk) (Stalk) 15:02, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
Add multicolour Holi Gulaal on the skin multiple colours and on ~2026-13188-08 (talk) 14:49, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
Holi
[edit]holi is a festival ~2026-13763-01 (talk) 11:33, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
vantiya song ~2026-13686-17 (talk) 12:59, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
- What does this mean?
- Speederzzz (Talk) (Stalk) 13:10, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
- This is someone trying to use the talk page as Google or ChatGPT. Such comments, which spam talk pages literally by the thousands every month, should be deleted per WP:NOTFORUM and not left to junk up the page forever. Gnomingstuff (talk) 19:58, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
Section on sexual assault during Holi
[edit]Should this topic be mentioned somewhere in the article? It has been covered in the academic literature () and popular media () BhamBoi (talk) 05:13, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
- I'm currently not in a position to read them all, but is it worse than during other events?
- Speederzzz (Talk) (Stalk) 10:53, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
- Per the first paper: "Leveraging different dates of the celebrations based on the lunar calendar, we document a dramatic increase of over 170% assaults against women during Holi ... Holi exacerbates existing attitudes towards violence against women." BhamBoi (talk) 17:32, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
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