Srinagar: A CRPF battalion headquarters in Srinagar’s Dalgate area celebrated the Hindu festival of colors, Holi on Wednesday with its personnel dancing on Bollywood songs and drenching each other in colours.
Though being away from their homes and families, the personnel were excited and full of energy as they exchanged greetings and offered sweets to each other.
“A soldier who works hard, also enjoys thoroughly,” commanding officer of the battalion Vijay Khatana told PTI.
Khatana said the paramilitary personnel were away from their families, but the force and the battalion was their extended family.
The personnel may be from different states and cultures but they shed their individual identity when they don the uniform, he added.
“CRPF is generally referred to as mini-India, we come from different backgrounds, different religions, caste, creed, languages, but when we put on this uniform, our identity is this uniform. Under the garb of this uniform, we shed our individual identity, and this uniform is our identity,” Khatana said.