India is a land of festivals. Every festival is celebrated with enthusiasm. It also represents our culture. India is a land whose primary occupation is agriculture. Changes in season thus play a very important role for Indian farmers. Their lifestyles and celebrations are thus exclusively linked to the seasonal landmarks in a year. There are many Indian festivals which are in tune with a farmer’s lifestyle and also with the seasonal variations in a year. Pongal, the harvest festival of…

Pongal is a four-day-long harvest festival. Pongal celebrated in Tamil Nadu, which falls in the month of Thai (that is, the January-February season) when crops like rice, sugarcane, turmeric etc. are harvested. The term Pongal in Tamil means "to boil", and this festival is celebrated as a thanksgiving ceremony for the year's harvest. Pongal, one of the important Hindu festivals, falls around the same time as Lohri every year, which is around mid-January. Pongal also happens to be the name of a dish consumed during…