ஒரே எண்ணம், ஓர் ஆயிரம் பார்வை

It’s Pongal here!!

-Abbhirami

For the people living in the southern parts of India, I don’t really have to tell them what this fest is all about. For others, this festival is just for the Sun. We are not only polytheists but also pantheists. The supreme power that we can see while living on Earth is the Sun. It is because of the Sun we call Earth to be the “living” planet. So it is just an act of gratitude to the Sun, by a festival on the very first day in the Tamil month named “Thai” (the first month in Tamil calendar).

Harvesting always begins in the month of ”Thai”, here. People who own farms and cows celebrate this festival so grandly. If you ask me how to celebrate this festival, all that you have to do is get up as early as possible (before sunrise) and when you can see the sun rising from the horizon, thank him from the bottom of your heart and make this sweet- “Pongal” ( sweet that is made out of rice, jaggery and bits of coconut) for him.