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Close photo of a Pongal rice offering being poured into a turmeric-smeared clay pot. A hand in a gold-trimmed bangle pours yellow rice grains, which fall into the pot. Beside it, a woman in orange clothing with a rudraksha mala and silver bangles steadies the pot with her hand. Another person's hand rests on a metal vessel at the bottom edge. The scene suggests a Pongal harvest ritual with turmeric and rice.

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January 14 20182018-01-14January 15 20162016-01-15Close photograph of a Pongal ritual at the Tiruvannamalai Adheenam. A woman's hand, wearing gold bangles and a red-and-blue sari sleeve, pours cooked rice from a brass vessel into a large clay pot. The pot is decorated with yellow marigold garlands and red roses and is set on a red cloth. Two sugarcane stalks stand behind the pot, and a turmeric root lies at its base. No a person is visible.2018-01-14Close 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.2017-01-14 +1 copiesAugust 02 20162016-08-02A 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.2016-01-16January 15 20162016-01-15A 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.2017-01-14Close photograph of food being served at an event. A man's bare arm, with a red thread and a metal bangle on the wrist, pours or places a heap of yellow-green food into the cupped hands of a woman who wears a beaded rudraksha mala on her wrist. Behind them, a woman in a white and red sari stands near a red cushioned sofa. Steel serving trays of the same yellow food sit in the foreground and background.2015-12-20December 31 20092009-12-31July 12 20162016-07-12January 14 20182018-01-14