Many facets of Thai Pongal: Pongal as Tamils’ Passover
By K. Thirukumaran
Tamils have celebrated Thai Pongal in one form or the other over millennia. Celebrating Thai Pongal nowadays in its traditional, purposeful piety and outdoor gala continues to evolve as vast numbers of diaspora Tamil communities exist in far corners away from their homelands.
They also live far from ancestral agrarian and village habitats that used to indulge in the age-old Thai Pongal festivities within the homelands as well. In this setting, let the Thai Pongal festivities continue to take centre stage and be celebrated as the key festival of Tamils in emboldening Tamil identity and in fostering kinship now and over our future generations:
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