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“In Bengal, Saraswathi Puja is a closed holiday for everyone. Since we live in Chennai, we have to balance work, school/college while celebrating the festival,” he shares. While the South celebrates Saraswathi Puja during the nine-day Navarathri festival, Bengalis take this time of the year to celebrate the Goddess, initiate new a phase in their lives and mark the arrival of spring. Traditionally, Bengalis don’t eat non-vegetarian food or add onion and garlic on any puja,” says Dutta. Here, on the other hand, we are fewer people and we have to find a place to do our puja,” he says, adding that Bengalis associate Saraswathi with the colour yellow..