The essence of the festival is devotion to Goddess Lakshmi, with the belief that staying awake through the night, performing bhajans, kirtans, and chanting Lakshmi mantras will invoke her blessings.

Meenal, who has been releasing devotional songs on regular intervals and calls the genre her “natural calling”, recently released another bhajan, Maate Lakshmi Maate, which is dedicated to ...