The Tamil Sangam at our residential society (Sobha City) organized a grand two day pongal celebration event at our Sobha city Club house. The grand festivities included cultural shows, sports events and culminated with a delicious community lunch! Here are some glimpses of the festivities...
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| Traditional Kolam |
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| Program started with Mangala isai... |
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| Thiruvalluvar in action |
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| V.O.C in action |
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| Traditional oyil aatam |
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| Traditional dance |
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| Folk dance |
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| Actress Anju Aravind trained the traditional dancers |
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| Children of Sobha city in colorful attire |
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| Little Barathiyar |
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| The grand traditional vegetarian lunch on plantain leaf |
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| An array of side dishes |
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| Crispy Appalams |
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| Vadais |
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| On the leaf...a sumptuous lunch |
Looks so festive and great food and music, especially to want to dance too. Thanks so much for this beautiful post!
ReplyDeleteHappy Festival times and great photos ~
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Sounds like a really fun festival!
ReplyDeleteThe festival looks like a fun time.
ReplyDeletevery nice
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ReplyDeleteThe food looks delicious!
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Donna
This looks beautiful and interesting. Tasty, too!
ReplyDeleteA grand event for the Pongal celebration. Food looks yummy. I like vadais eaten with chutney.
ReplyDeleteThe lunch is tempting and the other programs seem like a mini Chennai sangamam. Lovely photos!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos, love the colours and decorations. Your festivals are much more colourful than ours. Valerie
ReplyDeleteIt looks fabulous. What a feat of organisation, to coordinate all that going on and also a wonderful lunch.
ReplyDeleteWOW! Very beautiful and so impressive. Thank you for sharing these. Have a very nice day
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a nice celebration.
ReplyDeleteAnd having food on the plantain leaves reminds me of our 2013 South India holiday where we got a similar looking menu in Chettinad - https://rostrose.blogspot.com/2014/03/sudindien-12-kapitel-von-chettinad-nach.html
It was absolutely delicious and unforgettable.
(Our meal wasn't vegetarian though, it included fish and some of my travel companions ate Chicken Chettinad.)
ALL THE BEST! Traude
https://rostrose.blogspot.com/2023/01/manchmal-kommt-es-anders.html
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Lovely captures of Pongal annd especially the yummy food.
ReplyDeleteMy dream was always to visit India - ...but probably will never happen. i love the colorful clothes, the food, etc. Nice photos to see of this festival. I would have no idea if I did ever visit what area to make sure I see.
ReplyDeleteHappy Pongal!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a fun celebration. The costumes are festive with lots of color and pretty designs. I'm part Greek, and I really miss the Greek festival that I went to every year in my old town.
ReplyDelete~Sheri