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Big Pot
Nearly 800 people make pongal around the Kannathal temple in Nattarasankottai. They draw numbers ahead of time. Whoever draws no.1 (a great honor), goes first, and makes their pongal in this large pot. This then sets off the rest of the celebrations.
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Enduring a little smoke
At one point it got very smokey, and I had to wait for a breeze to come through and blow away some of the smoke, so I could shoot.
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Boys feeding fish
While their mothers and grand mothers made pongal and prayed, the boys fed puffed rice to the fish in the temple's tank.
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"I have to take this"!
No festival is more important than a phone call! The lady in the right expertly tended to her wood fire and stirred her pongal all while on her cell phone.
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Rice
When water and milk come to a boil, the women add rice to it. The woven container used for rice is called a kottan.
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