Unlike North Indians, Deshastha Brahmins celebrate colour throwing five days after Holi on Rangapanchami.
Other people, who wrongly assumed I was a person of colour, threw racist abuse thrown at me".
Make a dinner date of it - decorate the room with pictures of the most famous views in your homeland, decorate the room in your national colour (throws, blankets, cushions, flowers, whatever you can manage), hang up a flag and play some traditional music in the background.
The peaks are fantastic – "Covet," "Comfort," "Summer's Colour," "Crickets Throw Their Voice" – but the records feature too much monochromatic filler.
Do you actually want Mr Government to pay for you to go to a city, or a town, far, far away from your family, so that you can drink shots that are unconventional colours and throw up over every surface you can find?
Damien Hirst's spots and Gerhard Richter's colour chart paintings appear alongside modern colour masters such as Jim Lambie and David Batchelor, while the exhibition's colour focus throws new light on works by Richard Serra, Ed Ruscha and Dan Graham.
The bedrooms, on the first floor, are in a style I couldn't immediately define: light walls and carpets, brass bedsteads and pops of colour from throws and naive art cushions.
One of the first events for queens of colour was thrown by Marcel Christian in 1962.
People throw colour powder during the Holi Festival of Colours in Moscow.
The approach of Bare Lit, the UK's first festival exclusively for writers of colour, is simple: throw your own.
