NEW YORK, U.S.A., March 14, 2004: Tens of thousands of people turned Liberty Avenue in Queens, New York, into a festival of color and music in celebration of Phagwah. People lined the avenue to watch the annual Phagwah Parade, which has been organized by religious leaders in the Queens Guyanese community for more than 10 years. As they watched floats go by, people sprinkled white powder on friends and strangers while others used water-guns and make-shift squirt machines to spray colored water. The festival, also called Holi, is highly symbolic and based on an ancient Hindu story about the triumph of good over evil.
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