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Outdoor Pongal celebration under a shaded pavilion with red pillars. Rows of children and young women in orange and saffron clothes sit cross-legged on a paved floor, many with hands pressed in prayer and rudraksha malas around their necks. In front, a clay pot of boiling rice sits near a small fire with sugarcane stalks tied into a tripod. Behind them, a few adults in white clothes and lanyards stand and observe, and two women in white sit near the group. A colourful rangoli design lies on the floor at the bottom edge. No a person candidate is clearly visible.

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A Pongal celebration in an open-air pavilion with a tiled floor. Rows of children and young people in saffron-orange dhotis and shawls, many wearing rudraksha malas, sit with hands pressed together in prayer. In front, a clay pot of rice stands by a small fire on stone blocks, with sugarcane stalks tied to a frame beside it. A large colourful floral kolam decorates the foreground. Standing men in white shirts and white dhotis watch at the back, and two women in white sit at the right edge. A tree and palm fronds shade the scene.2016-01-15January 15 20162016-01-15January 15 20162016-01-15January 15 20162016-01-15January 15 20162016-01-15Outdoor Pongal celebration under a leafy canopy with red pillars and a paved courtyard. Women in orange saris and orange-clad devotees stand around a bright rangoli-like patch, while a shaved-headed priest in white dhoti and orange shawl with rudraksha malas bends over a sugarcane-tied pole. A man in white kurta bends to a red shrine or altar draped with white and orange flower garlands. Clay pots and sugarcane stalks are visible.2016-01-15Outdoor ritual photograph on bare earth with a fire pit in the foreground holding a kalasha-like pot and sugarcane stalks tied in a tripod frame. Two figures in orange saffron garments stand on a pink and blue cloth mat before a brass plate and offerings, one holding a raised object. Behind them a large group of devotees in orange and white clothing, some with hands in anjali, stand beneath a row of colourful decorated umbrellas, with a brick wall and a parked vehicle in the background. Several young girls in orange dress stand at right. Kolam-style white designs mark the ground and stone basins sit at left.2016-01-16January 15 20162016-01-15 +1 copiesJanuary 15 20162016-01-15January 15 20162016-01-15Photo of a Pongal cooking ritual outdoors on a paved courtyard with a colourful kolam floor design. A clay pot with a green-wrapped neck sits over a fire built of yellow bricks and wood, with sugarcane stalks tied in a tripod-like frame above it. Three women in orange saris with white forehead markings and braided hair tend the fire, one on the left and two seated at the rear. A man in orange robes with a rudraksha mala kneels at the right of the fire. Other people in white and orange clothing stand in the background near a red platform.2016-01-15Pongal celebration at an outdoor courtyard with a colourful rangoli floor design. Clay pots filled with boiling milk sit on brick stoves over open flames, with sugarcane stalks tied in an arch above them. A man in white dhoti and cream shirt with white vertical tilak on his forehead and a rudraksha mala feeds sticks into the fire. Young women in saffron-orange robes with white tilak kneel and tend the flames, and a shaved-headed person in orange with a red thread and rudraksha beads sits in the foreground. Other people in saffron and white robes stand in the background, and a yellow clay pot with a steel ladle sits to the right.2016-01-15