Jan 14 - Pongal Day in Virginia, USA

[shootingstar]

dolt !! you know Malayalam ?

No I do not know. Everything looks and sounds same to me. What is the difference?

 

[manlion]

Nowhere in India is thanksgiving a native word, Go blasphemise your own festivals name. And you you have the audacity to say you are preserving Tamil culture .

Apart from a handful of Christian English countries , no one calls it thanks giving . No true red blooded son of their land will blasphemise their culure.

Again , not thanksgiving. It has its own indigenous name & culture ,This is as retarded as calling baseball as cricket because they both use bats & balls . No one in TN calls pongal thanks giving .

Pongal - Thanks Giving Only applies to Tamils not to Indians. You are confusing Tamil pongal with Indian makara sankranti /lohri etc.

A clarification on your comment "nowhere in India", dont lump Tamils into India, there are Tamils living in Sri Lanka (sangam era) , Singapore/Malaysia/Mauritius etc long before India got its name and independence from the British. Hence calling Pongal - Thanks Giving should not hurt your Hindu-Indian sentiment

Meaning of Thai Pongal

This is a harvest festival - the Tamil equivalent of Thanksgiving. It is held to honor the Sun, for a bountiful harvest. Families gather to rejoice and share their joy and their harvests with others. The Sun is offered a "Pongal" of rice and milk.

http://sangam.org/CULTURE/pongal.htm

This should quell your objection

Each day in Pongal we thank the following :

Suriya(Sun) Pongal - Thanks to SUN

Thanks givning to SUN, Who is responsible for making the good harvest. Sweet Food is made from new grain in open ground and it is dedicated to sun as a sign of thanks giving. Picture 2.

Mattu(COW) Pongal- Thank giving to COW

Thanks giving to COW/BULL which made the harvest happen by helping farmer. They are bathed with water, colorfully decorated, Delicious dishes is made from new crops and given to them with respect . All will get blessings from COW/BULL. This is uniqueness of Hindu/Tamil culture which emphasis that we should give respect to all creatures. Picture 3, 4

Kanum Pongal(Farmers Day)- Thanks giving to farmers
This day is to thank farmers who made the harvest with their hard work. They are one who is sustaining the world by giving us food grains.

Suriya Pongal, Thank giving to SUN

http://sacred-ramayanam.blogspot.my/2011/01/pongal-wishes.html

Pongal is conducted in the open ground to directly thank Sun God with pongal (rice cooked in milk) accompanied by other farm produce notably sugar cane , fruits etc. This is done after sunrise before noon

 

[manlion]

Ofcouse it only applies to tamil nadu , what kind of dumb argument is that, the festival is the states harvesting season. how the fak will that apply to states with different seasons.

Same thing different versions in different months in different states. All are celebrating havesting of crops & tributing to the surya

Makara shankrati is Maharashtra & telengana

bogi in Andhra

sankranthi in Karnataka

khichdi in bihar

uttarayan in native gurati

lohir in Punjab

poush probon in west Bengal

Pongal only applies to Tamils. Its Tamil Thanks Giving Festival.

This thread is about Virginia State declaring Jan 14 as Pongal day. How Indians call or celebrate their festival does not concern Tamils. Pongal celebrated by all Tamils, traces its origin to Tamil sangam era. Declaration of Pongal Day by Virginia or its 1 month long celebration in Singapore has nothing to do with India.

Lol that's like saying don't lump hindi with India because there are south Africans ,Nepali,Bangladeshis that speak hindi. Lankan Tamils are cross bread Indians , they are not native to India. You guys are the cross bread minorities , Indians native to TN outnumber you by a 10,000 to 1

you are confusing issues - i.e language with race, Sinhalas with Eelam Tamils

such great IQ

Tell that to the passport of Pakistanis founding father

Tell that to the British maps of 18th century

Tell that to the 1700s Portuguese map
Tell that to the Spanish in 1600s

Tell that to the 1500s crica map that names the entire ocean as Indian

what a coincidence!

you are confusing India under its colonial masters. India was created by British in 1947. Nepalis/Bangladeshis , South Africans speaking Hindi is not my business. The empire in the maps refer to your British master's Empire not your Bharti or Hindutva or Hindián empire

Oh , here I thought other states pray to the moon for a harvesting festival lol , literally every harvesting festival is prayed to the sun god .

Pist don't get a heart attack , here is how makara sankranti , bogi , khichdi respectfully is celebrated

Karnataka Andhra
Rajasthan

Wow, what a coincidence!!!

Boiling milk & rice is literally the logo of sanitation lol

Man , you couldn't even get 1 point right lol

It proves nothing !! Pongal is prepared as Thank Giving offering to the Sun. Its not the same as exchanging yellu or cooking kichidi or flying kites or bonfire with friends. Pongal is thanks giving to the rain, sun, farm animals, farmers. Hindiáns have hijacked and concocted Pongal, Tamil's Thanks Giving festival into a generic Indian harvest festival

 

[manlion]

Pongal greetings from leaders around the world

 

[manlion]

https://twitter.com/x/status/952496384762105856

 

[manlion]

https://twitter.com/x/status/952560871481495554

 

[manlion]

Singapore's PM

https://twitter.com/x/status/952345344393715712

 

[manlion]

Norway PM's Pongal Greetings

https://www.facebook.com/

 

[manlion]

after more than 3 yrs of ban by Hindi'a to suppress Tamil identity /culture, Jallikattu returns to Tamilnadu

 

[manlion]

bet no Hindian PM even know these 2 basic Tamil words "nandri" "vanakkam"

https://twitter.com/x/status/953435459958394880

 

[punit]

bet no Hindian PM even know these 2 basic Tamil words "nandri" "vanakkam"

https://twitter.com/x/status/953435459958394880

How the pongal is going in the great Tamil Elam ? Have president Prabbakaran sent any message ?

 

[manlion]

How the pongal is going in the great Tamil Elam ? Have president Prabbakaran sent any message ?

All thanks to the Universal Tamil leader V Prabhakaran, all world leaders are wishing Tamils of greater Tamil Nation (Tamilnadu + Tamil Eelam) Pongal in Tamil

"Heroes never die, cowards die many times " .. btw let us know what recognition your people have achieved under Indian occupation ?

dedicated to losers

 

[punit]

All thanks to the Universal Tamil leader V Prabhakaran, all world leaders are wishing Tamils of greater Tamil Nation (Tamilnadu + Tamil Eelam) Pongal in Tamil

"Heroes never die, cowards die many times " .. btw let us know what recognition your people have achieved under Indian occupation ?

dedicated to losers

So when are u going to follow the pah of your leader ? Or waiting for your balls to grow? .

 

[manlion]

So when are u going to follow the pah of your leader ? Or waiting for your balls to grow? .

typical abusive sanghi, lose an argument gets personal

Loser , what have your people achieved under Indian occupation ?

Tamil community punches well above its weight ! – British PM
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/tamil-community-punches-well-above-its-weight-british-pm.539248/

 

[punit]

typical abusive sanghi, lose an argument gets personal

Loser , what have your people achieved under Indian occupation ?

Tamil community punches well above its weight ! – British PM
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/tamil-community-punches-well-above-its-weight-british-pm.539248/

U achieve all under the guidance of great leader Prabbakaran. So join his path !