This
Hindu festival celebrates the coming of spring, the color yellow, and
the goddess of knowledge, music, art, and culture. Saraswati is that
goddess, and offerings of yellow flowers are often made to her statue
or temples. Traditionally, children begin to learn the 50 letters of
the Sanskrit alphabet on this day, or learn to write their first
words. Students sometimes make offerings of pens or books to
Saraswati in hopes that they will do well on their exams. Most
schools have special programs on this day.
People
wear yellow clothes and eat saffron rice and yellow sweets during
Basant Panchami.
In
one city in India, today is celebrated with a huge kite festival.
This video and this article explore kite-flying in Pakistan and
the kite ban.
Note:
By the way, some sources call
this festival Vasant
Panchami.
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on this date:
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