Indian Festivals

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All this talk of pongal makes me very homesick

For me pongal was the biggest and most important festival , coming from a farming background.

there is also a tradition of eating sugarcanes on the occasion

and the debates (patti manram) in TV with solomon paappaiya as the judge

then the sarkarai pongal and ven pongal and the sweets etc.

then the relatives from various places..

regarding Jallikattu , it is more famous in the southern TN districts.

big bulls will be set free with money or gold on their necks and if u can subdue it with bare hands , it is yours.

the crowd will be heavy and the bulls would be bred for this purpose alone. it will be a carnage and deaths occur regularly . some or other poor bystander will be caught by the bulls horns.. but still the crowds increase every year and the popularity of the festival has not diminished in any way.

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