Speech about how a student can enjoy pongal vacations
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Thai Pongal is a festival of harvesting celebrated in Tamil Nadu. Thai Pongal is celebrated for four days, from January 13 to 16 according to Gregorian calendar. This falls to the last day of the Tamil month Maargazhi.
The harvest festival, falls typically on the 14th or 15th of January, it is a traditional occasion to thanks nature, for celebrating the life cycles that give us grain. The festival marks a period of plenty, peace and happiness. While each of its days marks a special religious significance. Pongal is the only festival of Hindu that follows a solar calendar. People worship god sun, earth and cattle who plays major role in good harvesting and growth of rice paddy. People offer them rice and celebrate pongal with all rituals.
People prepare sweet dish on the first day of the festival called ‘pongal’. The sweet pongal is made from rice, cardamom, jaggery, milk and dry fruits. Pongal is celebrated on the same day as ‘Bhogali Bihu’ in the North Eastern State of Assam, Lohri in Punjab, ‘Bhogi’ in Andhra Pradesh and ‘Makar Sankranti’ in Maharashtra, Makar Sankranti which is marked by kite-flying. People exchange homemade delicious sweets like ladoos and gur on this day.