Thai Pongal festival held with glamour

Monday, 15 January 2018 - 12:07

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Tamil Community around the world celebrated the Thai Pongal festival with glamour.

Pongal is the harvest festival dedicated to the Sun.

In accordance with the Tamil calendar it is celebrated on 14 of January each year.

Thai is the first month of the Tamil Almanac, and Pongal is a dish of sweet concoction of rice, mung dhal, jaggery and milk.

In Sri Lanka, the festival was held in North, East and in the areas of where the Tamil community lives.

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