The harvest festival of rural Pondicherry changes the atmosphere here. The houses are spring cleaned and adorned with colourful patterns of "Kolam". Old clothes and mats are ritually burnt on the bhogi day. Pongal made with new rice and jaggery sugar and raisins is cooked in new mud pots. On the third consecutive day, herds of cattle are washed and decorated. People dress up, visit, their friends and relative houses to wish each other. During Pongal time, the park and beach has a colourful look flooded with people.
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