In another 10 minutes, we are leaving for my mother's village. A 10 days holiday there and we will celebrate Pongal. (It is harvest festival and very special to us).
So, the good news is that you will not get any posts for another 10 days - most probably! Suresh helped install vodafone datacard in our netbook. If it works, you may get a post in between too...
The 1st day of Pongal is called 'Bogi'. On that day, the house will be cleaned, all the old things will be discarded / burnt / destroyed. (I should stay away from the cleaning gang!!) The 2nd day is the main Pongal, where we cook rice in open air directly below the Sun - a way of offering our prayers to the Sun for his help on agriculture.
The 3rd day is 'Cow Pongal' - 'மாட்டு பொங்கல்'. We bathe the cows, decorate them with colourful dots and designs, paint its horns and give new ropes, and finally feed with sweet rice, wash its mouth with coconut water etc. Great fun, it used to be.
Alas, as my parents were becoming old, they could not maintain cows at home and hence for the last 3 years, we didn't have cow pongal at home, but visit only the neighbours in the village.
But, this year, I suspect I qualify reasonably to be a cow and for all you know, they may celebrate the cow pongal with me as the object - though I didn't do anything to help the agriculture operations!!
Wish you all a Happy Pongal!!! பொங்கலோ பொங்கல் !!
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