{"id":3972,"date":"2015-03-03T10:25:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T04:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:47:13","slug":"a-unique-holi-tradition-in-nandagram-and-barsana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/a-unique-holi-tradition-in-nandagram-and-barsana\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Lathmar Holi tradition in Nandagram and Barsana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>A festival where men sing provocative songs and get \u201cbeaten\u201d by women with&nbsp;<\/strong><em>lathis.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/holi-celebrations-in-krishnas-holy-land\/\">Holi<\/a> tradition which is unique to Nandagram and Barsana villages, (in the district of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh)&nbsp;the men-folk sing provoking songs to get noticed by women, who then \u201cbeat\u201d them with&nbsp;<em>lathis.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women thrash men with&nbsp;<em>lathis<\/em>&nbsp;as they observe Lathmaar Holi in&nbsp;Barsana near Mathura.&nbsp;In the Lathmaar Holi, the women of Barsana (hometown of Srimati Radha Rani) hit the men from Nandagram (Krishna\u2019s home town) with wooden sticks in response to their teasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of devotees mucky with colours, dance and sing at the Nandagram temple while celebrating Lathmaar Holi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pexels-creativepic-7277341-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7686\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pexels-creativepic-7277341-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pexels-creativepic-7277341-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pexels-creativepic-7277341-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pexels-creativepic-7277341.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Devotees drenched in coloured water and gulaal powder take rest&nbsp;after participating in the Lathmaar festival in Nandagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A festival where men sing provocative songs and get \u201cbeaten\u201d by women with&nbsp;lathis. In the Holi tradition which is unique to Nandagram and Barsana villages, (in the district of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh)&nbsp;the men-folk sing provoking songs to get noticed by women, who then \u201cbeat\u201d them with&nbsp;lathis. Women thrash men with&nbsp;lathis&nbsp;as they observe Lathmaar Holi in&nbsp;Barsana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7689,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions\/7689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}