Staten Island's Tamil community celebrated the 10th annual Harvest Festival with traditional Pongal rituals, cultural ...

Pongal, celebrated on the first day of the Tamil month of Thai, aligns with other regional harvest festivals like Makar Sankranti in Eastern India, Lohri in Punjab, and Uttarayan in Gujarat.

During the celebrations in Hindu temples and Christian churches, school material was handed out to 175 pupils from the disadvantaged Malaiyaha community. The initiative, by the Voice of Plantation ...

Read on to know more. Pongal, also known as Thai Pongal, is the first festival of the year which marks the beginning of the cheerful festive season. The festival marks the Sun’s six-month ...