A close photograph of a clay pot cooking over a brick stove. The orange-glazed pot holds a pale yellow porridge-like mixture, and a hand at the top stirs it with a wooden ladle. The pot is decorated with white horizontal stripes, a red dot, and leaves and tubers tied around its rim. - Nithyanandapedia

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A close photograph of a clay pot cooking over a brick stove. The orange-glazed pot holds a pale yellow porridge-like mixture, and a hand at the top stirs it with a wooden ladle. The pot is decorated with white horizontal stripes, a red dot, and leaves and tubers tied around its rim.

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A clay pot of pongal or rice porridge cooking on a wood-fired hearth made of red bricks. The orange-glazed earthen pot is blackened from fire and decorated with white horizontal stripes and a red dot, with turmeric root, leaves and twigs tied at its rim. A hand pours white liquid or milk into the pot from above. Dry twigs and ash lie on the ground, and a steel plate of food sits in the background. No people are clearly visible apart from a hand and a sleeve at the edge of the frame.

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A 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.

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A 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.

A dark metal pot of boiling milk sits on a small clay stove built from stacked yellow-ochre bricks, with flames licking beneath it and steam rising. Two bricks are dusted with turmeric and white powder, and one has a white painted circle. Behind the stove a person in orange-red robes stirs with a long ladle and holds a brass vessel, and a second robed figure is partly visible at the top. The setting is an outdoor ground of sandy earth, consistent with a Pongal cooking ritual.

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Close view of a Pongal pot, a glazed earthen vessel with painted white geometric lines, boiling over with steam and topped by a mound of white rice. A garland of yellow marigolds and red rose buds wraps its neck. Sugarcane stalks stand on either side, and yellow flowers and marigold garlands lie on the ground. Blurred figures in orange and maroon saris stand behind on a red floor. No identifiable a person is visible.

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A photograph of a traditional clay pot of Pongal rice cooking over an open fire. A hand holds a wooden stirring spoon in the pot, which is wrapped with green leaves at its rim. The rice mixture is pale yellow with orange lentil pieces, and steam rises around it. A second hand with a braided bracelet rests on the pot's side, and a bare arm wears a white garment at the edge of the frame. Pongal is the harvest festival of sweet rice cooked in a clay pot. No a person is visible in this close-up of the cooking.