Pongal Overflows in Chettinadu
January 15th 2019 The Pongal pots were bubbling away today.
On this second day of the annual four-day harvest festival important in Tamil Nadu, women lined up near the water tank in Kothamangalam to prepare the special mixture known as pongal. The word “pongal” refers to boiling or “overflowing”—abundance, prosperity, fertility, the harvest.
The women tossed soaked rice and moong lentils into the pot bu
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