HYDERABAD: The city folks are waiting to get soaked in colours marking holi on Tuesday, while the major markets are cashing in on the seasonal income by making available colours of every hue, water guns and traditional sweets. Students started their holi celebrations on Monday, a day before the festival, by taking to the merriment inside and outside their respective campuses.
Areas near Rashtrapati Road, Mahankali temple, Monda market in Secunderabad have come alive to canopy stalls selling holi-related wares. Siddiamber Bazaar, Gowliguda, Begum Bazaar and Ramkote are always the bigger markets.
Sales are on a high and there is an increased demand for herbal colours, said Santosh Singh, a shopkeeper, “Gulal is always the highest selling colour each year. Powder colours come next. Families have started purchasing colours from Saturday. Sales have been good for plastic water colour,” he said.
People selling traditional sugar sweets mounded in the shape of birds and animals and dry coconut garlands are doing good business.
Challagali Sahithi, a law Student, said “we all friends celebrated the festival of colours a day before, as the day of the festival is family time.”
