Saffron (color)

Saffron is a shade of yellow or orange, the colour of the tip of the saffron crocus thread, from which the spice saffron is derived.

Quotes

• Why does the world before him
  Melt in a million suns,
  Why do his yellow, yearning eyes
  Burn like saffron buns?
  • Charles Causley, "Innocent’s Song", st. 5, in Johnny Alleluia (1961), p. 11

• 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.
  • Anthropologist Shail Mayaram, quoted in "A Faith Besieged", Outlook India (8 July 2002), Online