Latest Pongal 2011 Greetings, Pictures has been updated here for Happy Pongal 2011 Festival date for celebrating is on January 14, 2011. Harvest festival of Pongal observed in the month of January after the winter solstice. The date of the festival is derived from Solar Calendar. For Hindus the date of Pongal is extremely auspicious and astronomically significant. Around January 14, every year sun begins its six-months-long journey northwards or in Uttarayan and moves into the zodiac Capricorn or Makaram Rashi. This celestial event is celebrated as Pongal in South India. So all over South India will celebrate this festival with lots of joy by sending Pongal 2011 Greetings, Pictures, Pongal 2011 Messages, Pongal Sms, Pongal Wishes to all of their friends and family members.

Pongal is celebrated when the fields are blooming, thus a celebration of prosperity and good harvest especially for the farming community. During the Pongal celebrations farmers express their gratitude to Sun God and the cattle and thank them for a good harvest.

The festival of Pongal is celebrated as Makar Sankranti in central India and Bhugali Bihu in Assam while people in West Bengal, celebrate the last day of Bengali month Paush on January 14. Here, thousands of devotees take bath in Gangasagar, the point where the holy river Ganga meets the sea, to wash away all the earthly sins.

Pongal is a four-day festival celebrated with lot of gusto in Tamil Nadu. It is observed in the Tamil month, Thai Masam. Pongal 2011 starts on January 14 with Bhogi Pongal. It is the biggest harvest festival celebrated as thanks giving occasion to the nature. Bhogi Pongal, Surya Pongal, Mattu Pongal, Kannum Pongal are the four festivals celebrated on first, second, third and fourth day respectively.

Pongal 2011 dates – Pongal Calendar 2011

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