The festival that colours everything in hues of yellow, bringing warmth and brightness with it - Basant Panchami - is being celebrated today across the country. On the festival, which is celebrated every year on the fifth day of the bright half of the 'Magha' lunar month, people flock to marquees and temples, dressed in yellow attires offering prayers to the Goddess of knowledge, art, and music- Saraswati.

Besides marking the onset of the Spring season, the occasion also highlights how people from different communities in the country have co-evolved through the course of the time. While Basant Panchmi is a Hindu festival, which is celebrated traditionally by offering special prayers to Goddess Saraswati, it is also known to hold eminence in some Muslim shrines of New Delhi.