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Close photo of a pongal offering being prepared outdoors. A person in a cream dhoti with gold-bordered edges and a bangled wrist pours milk from a hammered silver vessel into a clay pot set on a yellow-painted pot, decorated with leaves and red kumkum dots. The clay pot is filled with boiling milk, and small flames glow at the base beside the pot on stone blocks. The person's bare feet and gold bracelet are visible, and a small framed portrait pendant hangs on a dark cord at the top. A pongal ritual with milk boiling over a fire.

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January 14 20172017-01-14A photograph of a dark, blackened clay pot set on a yellow-painted brick hearth, steaming. The pot's mouth is topped with a white mound of cooked rice and green leaves, with a dark reddish-brown item tucked beside the leaves, as in a Pongal boiling-over offering. Blurred behind are a bright red cloth, a yellow cloth, and the white dhoti of a standing person at right, visible only from the waist down. Smoke rises around the pot. This is a photo of Pongal ritual cooking, with no clearly identifiable face visible.2017-01-14January 14 20172017-01-14January 14 20172017-01-14January 14 20172017-01-14A clay pot of milk boiling over an open flame on a paved brick floor, as in a Pongal rice-cooking offering. The pot sits on a stone base with yellow-painted sides, wrapped with green leaves and sugarcane stalks. A wooden stirring stick rests in the milk, and the fire flickers beside it. Brass bowls holding grains, turmeric and a white ingredient lie on the right, with a stainless steel vessel and a kolam design drawn in white powder on the ground. No people are visible.2017-01-14A close photograph of a Pongal ritual: a clay pot filled with milk and rice boils over on a small brick hearth, with milk spilling down its sides onto the yellow-ochre bricks. A person's hands with bangles and henna-like markings hold the pot's rim and sprinkle or stir its contents, while dry sticks and burning embers lie on the paved ground. Pongal, the overflowing-milk harvest offering, is visibly performed here. The image shows no clearly visible face of a person, and no identifiable person in the scene is confirmed as him.2017-01-14January 14 20172017-01-14A close photo of a Pongal rice dish cooking in a clay pot set on bricks over a wood fire. A hand sprinkles or pours rice grains into the pot, whose rim is frothing with boiled milk running down the sides. Scattered firewood, a basket of cinnamon-like sticks, and a brass vessel surround the fire on a paved ground. Only a hand and arm are visible, wearing a silver bangle and a strand of rudraksha beads; no face or full body is shown.2017-01-14Close photo of a Pongal ritual: a clay pot filled with milk boiling over a clay stove of stacked yellow bricks, steam rising, with a fresh green banana-leaf wrapped around its rim and a sugarcane stalk standing beside it. A woman in an orange sari with a gold bangle kneels at the right edge, one hand reaching toward the pot. A wooden ladle lies on the ground and a woven basket sits in the corner. White kolam rangoli lines decorate the ground around the stove. No face of a main subject is visible, and no identifiable person is shown.2017-01-14January 14 20172017-01-14January 14 20172017-01-14