Write a letter to your pen friend about pongal festival
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Address House No.
Dear Friend,
I would like to invite you to come with us in a food festival. The event will be held at the house of one of our friend and the event will start at exactly 3pm.
Our old and new friends will come and i hope would come with us too. I`m hoping that you could come.
Yours Sincerely
Your Name.
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21, Civil Lines
Delhi - 110007
11 March, 2017
Dear Fredrick
In your last letter you asked about the Pongal and I am glad that you are interested in knowing our culture and rituals. India is a land of festivals and rituals. Pongal is celebrated in the Southern India. It co-incides with Lohri and Makar Sankranti which are celebrated in the Northern India. and fall in miid-January. All of them are harvest festivals.
Pongal celebrations last for four days and the first day is basically a thanksgiving ceremony for Indra, the God of water offered for good harvest. The first day is Bhogi Mantaalu when a bonefire is made in courtyard using the wood, and cow dung cakes. On the second day Thai Pongal is observed wherein they cook milk and rice together (it is called pongal) in an earthen pot out in the open and a turmeric plant is tied to it Besides, sugarcane, coconuts and bananas are also offered. The households look very attractive with 'kolam' designs made at their entrance.
The third day is Mattu Pongal in which cattle is decorated with bells, sheaves of corn and garlands and worshiped. It is associated with a mythological belief according to which Lord Shiva sent his bull 'Basawa' on the earth with a curse to plough for men. On the fourth day women pray for the prosperity of their brothers observing a ritual as per which they keep left over pongal, other food, beetle nut, beetle leaf and sugarcane on a washed turmeric leaf.
Hope it satisfies your query. I wish you can come sometime during that period and see it yourself. How are your studies going on? I have my exams these days and I'm working hard to revise. Now I pen down and better study. Hoping to get a quick reply from you.
With love
Yours lovingly
XYZ
Delhi - 110007
11 March, 2017
Dear Fredrick
In your last letter you asked about the Pongal and I am glad that you are interested in knowing our culture and rituals. India is a land of festivals and rituals. Pongal is celebrated in the Southern India. It co-incides with Lohri and Makar Sankranti which are celebrated in the Northern India. and fall in miid-January. All of them are harvest festivals.
Pongal celebrations last for four days and the first day is basically a thanksgiving ceremony for Indra, the God of water offered for good harvest. The first day is Bhogi Mantaalu when a bonefire is made in courtyard using the wood, and cow dung cakes. On the second day Thai Pongal is observed wherein they cook milk and rice together (it is called pongal) in an earthen pot out in the open and a turmeric plant is tied to it Besides, sugarcane, coconuts and bananas are also offered. The households look very attractive with 'kolam' designs made at their entrance.
The third day is Mattu Pongal in which cattle is decorated with bells, sheaves of corn and garlands and worshiped. It is associated with a mythological belief according to which Lord Shiva sent his bull 'Basawa' on the earth with a curse to plough for men. On the fourth day women pray for the prosperity of their brothers observing a ritual as per which they keep left over pongal, other food, beetle nut, beetle leaf and sugarcane on a washed turmeric leaf.
Hope it satisfies your query. I wish you can come sometime during that period and see it yourself. How are your studies going on? I have my exams these days and I'm working hard to revise. Now I pen down and better study. Hoping to get a quick reply from you.
With love
Yours lovingly
XYZ
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