Essay On Pongal Festival

The Pongal Festival is mostly celebrated by Indians across the globe as a thanksgiving for a good harvest and not entirely in India. Whereas, Indians of Tamil origin that had remained on the other nation-states of the globe equally well as Malaysia are practicing to celebrate this festival in order to stick united with their own acculturation. Even though, this festival for a day as well it is not considerate as a public holiday in Malaysia and even in other states, but most of the Indians are still celebrating as a necessary festival while taking a farewell. In Malaysia people are tend to celebrate the Pongal festival with a little differently apart from the actual celebration in India. The difference in Malaysia is we only celebrate within the family members, but in India is it totally different where they celebrate among the families and with the local communities. Not only that, on those few days Malaysian Indians will be not consuming non-vegetarian food such as chicken, meats and so on as giving respect to the god and as a symbol of not offending the living habitats.

This festival is usually celebrated for a four days of the Thai Month (Tamil Month) which is referring to the middle of the month January. This is because, January month is considered as the most fortunate month of the year based on the Solar Calendar of Indian. Besides that, the Malaysian woman of the household will be engaged in preparing the necessary materials for the Pongal prayers is usually a few days or a week before the Pongal day. For example, the materials they would compulsorily buy is brown sugar, rice, cashew nut, raisins, jasmine flower, milk, ghee, clay pots, stalks sugar cane and