Saffron (color)

"Why does the world before him Melt in a million suns, Why do his yellow, yearning eyes Burn like saffron buns?"

"The media’s politics of labelling can have a bad effect. The papers keep talking about the saffron brigade. Historically, saffron is the colour of renunciation. Now you have taken away the colour from the believing Hindu and given it a pejorative ring."