Pongal Festival
Harvest festival. Thanking the Sun God for agricultural abundance.
Pongal is a harvest festival celebrated by Tamilians at the end of the harvest season. Pongal is a four day festival which usually takes place from January 13 to 16. The last day of the Tamil month Maargazhi to the third day of Tamil month Thai.
Pongal celebrated as Makara Sankranthi in Andhra Pradesh, Bengal, Kerala, Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Uttar Pradesh. Lohri in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. Magh Bihu in Assam, Uttarayana in Gujarat and Rajasthan and Maghe Sankranti in Nepal.
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