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Vasant Panchami or Basant Panchami is a prominent Hindu festival celebrated to mark the arrival of the spring season. This season holds great importance for farmers growing mustard as their fields bloom with new crops this time of the year.
The day is celebrated every year on the fifth day of the bright half of the Hindu lunisolar calendar month of Magha and this year, it will fall on February 16.
Vasant Panchami also holds cultural significance. It is dedicated to Goddess Saraswati, who is regarded as the deity of wisdom, intellect and learning. As per the Hindu mythology, it was on this day the goddess was born, hence every year people worship her and seek her blessings on the occasion of Vasant Panchami. The goddess is often portrayed seated on a white lotus, wearing white clothes. The four hands of the deity are said to symbolise ego, intellect, alertness and the mind. People on this day wear yellow colour clothes (symbol of the arrival of spring) and offer