Pongal 2011 is January 14, Friday after the winter solstice. The dates for the festival are from the solar calendar so it usually remains unchanged. For the same Hindu date of Pongal is extremely beneficial and astronomical high. On 14 January each year starting Sun’s six-month journey north or Uttarayan and moves into the zodiac Capricorn or Makaram Rashi. Pongal festival marks the end of the cold winter months and the arrival of spring.
The celebration of Pongal last four days in the last day of the Tamil month Maargazhi the third day of Thai that is January to February after the Western calendar. During the Pongal celebrations farmers expess his gratitude to Sun God & cows and thank them for a good harvest. In150 years of Tamil calendar from the Gregorian calendar year 1870th Since many of the religious festivals and cultural events in Tamil Nadu is dependent on the Tamil calendar, the Tamil calendar year remains popular among the Tamil speaking people all over the globe.
Pongal 2011 starts on 14 January with Bhogi Pongal. It is the biggest harvest festival celebrated in thanks giving rise to the wild. Bhogi Pongal, Surya Pongal, Pongal, Kannum Pongal, celebrated four festivals in the first, second, third and fourth days, respectively. Sankramana Snana or ritual bath in Sankramana Makara is the most auspicious ritual observed along the banks of holy rivers like Cauvery, Pampa and Vaigai in Tamil Nadu.
