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Street photograph of a Pongal festival decoration on a town road. Three tall sugarcane stalks tied together with a green cloth stand upright near a bunch of green bananas. Two decorated clay pots with leaves and yellow wooden bases sit on the ground surrounded by white and coloured kolam rangoli patterns. A red sign with a painted figure at the top reads Annadhanam with the Tamil and English text 'WAY TO ANNADHANAM' and an arrow. Behind them a busy street has motorbikes, pedestrians and a temple gopuram on the hillside. No a person candidate is visible.

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Outdoors on a busy street, two clay pots sit on a wood fire for Pongal cooking, one painted with red, green and blue diamond patterns and both wrapped in banana leaves with turmeric and red kumkum marks. Dry sugarcane stalks and firewood surround the fire. Behind them, passing motorbikes, a man in a lungi, a woman in a teal sari riding pillion, and a few pedestrians stand along a road lined with shops and a temple gopuram. No a person candidate is visible.2024-01-15Jan 15 2023 sripuram2023-01-15Jan 14 2022 sripuram2022-01-14Jan 15 2023 sripuram2023-01-15 +1 copiesJan 15 2023 sripuram2023-01-15Jan 15 2022 sripuram2022-01-15Outdoor photograph of a Mattu Ponggal setup on bare earth: a clay stove mound decorated with yellow lines and a red mark, topped by an orange clay pot with white dots and a red band. Three bamboo poles lean together above the pot. Colourful rangoli kolam designs in pink, yellow, blue and orange surround the stove, and a small heap of yellow flowers, red blossoms and betel-like fruits sits on a kolam at the bottom. A red wall with white kolam patterns stands behind, and a few green leaves lie near the stove. No people are visible.2022-01-15A clay pot of boiling milk sits on a mud stove over a wood fire on bare ground during Pongal celebrations. The orange-yellow pot is decorated with turmeric paste and red and white dots, and its rim is open with milk visible inside. White rangoli kolam swirls are drawn on the ground around the stove, and sugarcane stalks stand upright on either side as decorations. Red and yellow flower petals and kumkum are scattered near the base. Bare feet of a person are visible at the top edge of the frame.2022-01-14Outdoor Pongal celebration at a temple courtyard. Two clay pots painted yellow-orange with red bands and dots sit on stone hearths over wood fires, with smoke rising between them. Three sugarcane stalks with leaves are tied in tripod frames above each pot. A hand in the right corner pours milk from a gold-coloured vessel into the right pot. Red and pink flower petals and yellow marigold petals are scattered on the ground, with a colourful rangoli design at left and a potted plant on the steps behind. A person in a blue patterned garment with bare feet is partly visible at left. No one is clearly visible apart from the pourer's hand and the bare feet.2022-01-14January 15 20162016-01-15 +1 copiesJanuary 15 20202020-01-15Jan 15 2022 sripuram2022-01-15