Pongal
14 January 2026 · movable holiday — It's overflowing, it's overflowing – happy Pongal, abundance to all!
Pongal is a Tamil harvest festival celebrated mainly in Tamil Nadu in southern India, and also among Tamil communities in Sri Lanka and around the world. It lasts four days. The main day is the first day of the Tamil month of Thai, usually 14 or 15 January, when, according to the Indian solar calendar, the Sun enters Capricorn and Uttarayana – the Sun's traditional six-month „northward journey“ – begins. Families boil fresh rice with milk and sugar in a new clay pot, and when it boils over, everyone cries out „Pongalo Pongal!“. The overflow is a sign of abundance and good fortune. Thanks are offered to the Sun and the land for the harvest. Cattle, which help in the fields, are honoured too: their horns are painted and they are decorated with garlands. Houses are cleaned, and doorsteps are decorated with patterns of rice flour called kolam.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver star figure made of light dots and lines, like a constellation drifting across the sky: a round clay pot with frothy rice overflowing from its rim in sparkling streams
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