Celebrate Ratha Saptami 2025 with traditional dishes like Payasam, Pongal, and more. Discover auspicious foods that bring ...

Cattle are also fed special treats like sweet Pongal a rice dish made with jaggery, sugar, and ghee, which is considered a symbolic offering to the animals for their hard work. Bullock cart races ...

The cooked rice is then used to make a dish called Pongal which includes sugar and dal. There are different varieties of Pongal that are made and these include venpongal and chakra Pongal.

Though Pongal was celebrated on Jan 14 this year with the last day on Thursday, the church traditionally celebrates it on Sunday to allow for better community participation. Father Dominic encouraged ...

The Pongal gift includes a kilogramme each of raw rice and sugar, along with a sugarcane. Additionally, around 1.6 crore ration cardholders received a dhoti and a saree. The state government ...

Chewing on sugar cane, digging into delicious sweet pongal, and catching a Test at Chepauk were all part of January festivities in the Madras of yore. The Pongal Test was very much part of the ...

The second day of the Pongal festival, Surya Pongal, often referred to as Thai Pongal, holds the greatest importance among the festivities. This day is set aside for the veneration of the Sun God ...

Bhogi Pongal is a significant day in the Pongal celebrations, marking the beginning of the sun's journey towards the northern hemisphere. The day is characterized by the burning of old and ...