8 mar 2012, amrtapuri early in the day it was very much in the air that amma may play holi. when? no one knew. i saw some devotees walking around with some colour powder. so it was obvious that something might happen. but when? no one knew. remember? back in 2007, in mysore, one devotee […]

Will she or won’t she?  That was the question on everyone’s minds on Holi.  Most years Amma has been in North India on this day, but this year it was a darshan day at Amritapuri.  Would she play Holi with us? Darshan was coming to a close and there was a Pada Puja at the […]

8 Mar 2012, Amritapuri I had a great Holi.  Even though we said that we should not celebrate Holi on our campus since we did not want students throwing color on each other in the classrooms. Nevertheless I  got my share of holi- when the Chancellor of the university doused me with color as I […]

It was a cloudy morning in Amritapuri. Amma came out of her house early for a few special group photographs with recent graduates of Biotech school of Amrita University. After the photographs had been taken in front of Her house, Amma looked up at all of the people standing on the back of the temple […]

In Holi Company —Coloring is fun but getting colored is even more fun! In my childhood, I used to wait for the festival of Holi, because I used to enjoy splashing colors on others. That was the only day we kids were allowed to fool around. We even used to fill small balloons with colored […]