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Pongal Festival Pongal Festival Thanking the sun god for agricultural abundance www.makemegenius.com Free Sccience Videos for Kids Free Science Videos for Kids (4-12 year age) visit www.makemegenius.com www.makemegenius.com Free Sccience Videos for Kids Pongal • Thai Pongal is a thanksgiving festival at the end harvest season also celebrated as Harvest festival by the Tamilians in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian Union Territory of Pondicherry and Sri Lanka. www.makemegenius.com Free Sccience Videos for Kids A HARVEST FESTIVAL OF INDIA According to the lunar calendar, the sun moves from the Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn, or from Dakshinayana to Uttarayana, in the month of Poush in mid-January. This end of the winter solstice also coincides with the harvest season and cessation of the northeast monsoon in South India. The movement of the earth from one zodiac sign into another is called Sankranti, and is celebrated as Makar, or Uttarayana, Sankranti, or Lohri, in the North, and as Pongal in the South In the South Sankranti becomes Pongal. It is a celebration of the harvest which is observed for three days in Tamil Nadu as well as in Andhra Pradesh. The first day is the Bhogi Pongal which is celebrated as a family festival. www.makemegenius.com Free Sccience Videos for Kids Decorated Entrance of the House Traditional way of cooking Modern way of cooking Pongal Pongal in a clay pot. www.makemegenius.comIn brass vessel on LPG stove. Free Sccience Videos for Kids Offerings made to Sun God Sun God depicted riding His chariot with Seven White Horses Pongal Tamarind Rice A Special dish of Andhra Pradeshwww.makemegenius.com -India Free Sccience Videos for Kids People fly kites of different shapes and sizes www.makemegenius.com There is no barrier of caste,creed,religionFree Sccience Videos for Kids or region for flying kites. Kites of different shapes and sizes www.makemegenius.com Free Sccience Videos for Kids OUR SPECIAL DISHES DURING FESTIVALS TAMARIND RICE WITHwww.makemegenius.com SWEET CHAPATI AND VADA Free Sccience Videos for Kids Free Science Videos for Kids (4-12 year age) visit www.makemegenius.com www.makemegenius.com Free Sccience Videos for Kids .
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