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Pongal

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu's harvest festival, with bull-taming at Madurai's Jallikattu and sweet rice boiled at sunrise.

Photo: Matthew T Rader · CC BY-SA 4.0
When
Mid-January
Our full guide to Pongal is being written. It's on the South India list as Worth a Detour.

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