Loading page
परंपराएं
How Pongal is actually celebrated — the specific practices, described plainly, and how they differ between states and communities.
Pongal 2026: 14–16 January 20264 daysपोंगल
No login needed to share or download anything on TyoharHub.
Specific practices rather than a general mood.
The national version of a festival is usually a compromise. This is the actual picture.
The full four-day festival: Bhogi bonfire, Thai Pongal with the boiling pot, Mattu Pongal for cattle, and Kaanum Pongal for family visits. A public holiday across the state.
Observed as a public holiday with the same rituals, and in Sri Lanka as Thai Pongal, one of the major Tamil festivals on the island.
The same solar date is observed as Suggi in Karnataka and Sankranti in Andhra, with a three-day structure of Bhogi, Sankranti and Kanuma, and similar cattle decoration on the third day.
Thai Pongal is a public holiday in Malaysia and an official festival in Singapore and Mauritius, celebrated with the pot ritual and kolam in Tamil communities.
Free, no login, nothing you type leaves your device.