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A woman in a cream and yellow sari with colourful embroidered blouse sleeves bends over a clay pot set on a mud stove over a wood fire. Bamboo poles frame the pot, which has white cooked rice or pongal on top with yellow flowers around the base. Smoke rises from the fire. Behind, a seated figure in red and orange clothing wears a red turban and a garland of yellow flowers, seated on an ornate gold throne in a pavilion with gold pillars. The floor has green and pink rangoli lines and a decorated wall with white patterns is at right. The scene shows pongal being cooked in a clay pot.

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Jan 16 2023 sripuram2023-01-16Jan 16 2023 sripuram2023-01-16Outdoor Makara Sankranti Pongal offering at a covered open-air pavilion. A woman in a red saree with gold-embroidered red blouse stands bent over, pouring rice from a brass vessel into a clay pot set on a small earthen stove with a lit fire beneath it. Bamboo-like sugarcane stalks are tied in a tripod frame above the pot, and the ground is decorated with colourful rangoli in yellow, blue, pink and green, with scattered flower petals. Behind her, a seated figure in saffron-orange robes with a red crown-like headwear, rudraksha mala and a marigold garland sits on an ornate gold throne-like seat, under strings of marigold and red flower garlands. a person candidate appearance is only partly visible and not clearly confirmed, so this is recorded as unsure.2023-01-16Jan 16 2023 sripuram2023-01-16Jan 16 2023 sripuram2023-01-16Jan 16 2023 sripuram2023-01-16Jan 16 2023 sripuram2023-01-16Jan 14 2022 sripuram2022-01-14Jan 14 2022 sripuram2022-01-14A woman in a red sari with a gold border stands at left, stirring or ladling from a shallow vessel over a clay pot set on a mud hearth. The clay pot is cooking over a wood fire with smoke rising, and it has a white-topped rim. Thin bamboo poles tied with dried leaves form a tripod above the pot. Behind is a decorated open pavilion with yellow marigold and pink flower garlands on the roof and a carved wooden throne with a seated figure wearing a red garland. The floor has colourful rangoli in yellow, pink and blue with scattered flower petals. The scene matches a Pongal cooking ritual for Makara Sankranti.2023-01-16A woman in a red and gold embroidered blouse with hair tied back and glasses leans over a clay pot placed on a smoking open fire, stirring with a ladle. Bamboo poles form a tripod frame above the pot, and yellow flowers are scattered on the ground around the fire. Behind her, an ornate gold and carved throne holds a seated figure in red and saffron-toned clothing wearing a red turban, a rudraksha mala, and a yellow flower garland, with a red-and-white striped cushion before it. The scene reflects Pongal being cooked in a mud pot during the Kanumu celebration.2023-01-16Jan 16 2023 sripuram2023-01-16