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Pongal Tamil indicates more expect of a new time of success. It shows the end of the crop season with ample of hopes attached on the whole Tamil month of 'Thai' starting with the Pongal Day. Tamil people saying goes on that "Thai Piranthal Vali Pirakkum" meaning that when the month of Thai dawns there will be approach of love, peace, concord, prosperity, joyness in everyone's life.
The month of Thai that starting on 14th or 15th January has considered very fortunate. There are hundreds of temples all over Tamil Nadu arrange for community feasts traditionally know as 'Sama Bandhi Virundu' in which people from all castes and religions contribute. Pongal Tamil brings family gatherings and get together, forgetting enmities and personal jealousies and walk towards resolution. If one has ability to trail away the darkness of unawareness and overconfidence from within one could achieve greatness since ones inner beings is magnificent with peace, love and sympathy.
Pongal Tamil 2012
The pongal is greatly respected festival traditionally celebrated in Tamil Nadu to mark the harvesting season. It has celebrated in the month of January after the winter ending. The date of this festival has consequent from solar calendar. The pongal celebration has marked the end of cold winter season and welcoming the spring season.
Celebration of Pongal ends for four days from the last day of Tamil month as Maargazhi to the third day of Thai. In the year 2012, the festival will also celebrate on Friday 14th January same as every year. During this festival farmers express their gratitude to the sun god and the cattle and thank them for a good harvest. Kolam is the main attraction of this festival and usually women take it as a challenge to decorate their houses with kolam design.
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