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Lieutenant Governor K. Kailashnathan hosted Pongal celebrations connected the lawns of Lok Niwas connected Wednesday.
Attended by Chief Minister N. Rangasamy, the Lt. Governor and his woman Beena Kailashnathan, celebrated the festival by making Pongal crockery successful earthen pots and offered prayers for prosperity. Mr. Kailashnathan, clad successful accepted attire of veshti and shirt, witnessed taste performances by assorted artists on with the Chief Minister.
Speaker R. Selvam, Minister for Public Works K. Lakshminarayanan, Minister for Agriculture C. Djeacoumar, legislators and officials attended the event.
In Auroville, implicit 400 radical gathered astatine the Bharat Nivas to observe Pongal festival and the auspicious decision of the Margazhi month.
The lawsuit brought unneurotic a divers assemblage of Aurovillians, Indian and overseas residents, children, Auroville Foundation staff, and tourists.
One of the precocious points was a creation show against the backdrop of a rendition of Thiruppavai by Dalia, a kid successful Auroville, attired arsenic the poet-saint Sri Andal. The creation marked the finale of the 30-day Margazhi festival successful the cosmopolitan township.
Students of Isai Ambalam School performed Silambam, the accepted Tamil martial art.
Later, unit of Bharat Nivas and the Auroville Foundation, unneurotic with residents, prepared the ceremonial Pongal. The beingness of a cattle and calf during the celebrations added to the ritual’s authenticity arsenic the cookware boiled implicit portion a cheering assemblage welcomed the awesome of prosperity and abundance for the twelvemonth ahead, a property enactment said.
The State Bank of India, Villianur branch, excessively celebrated ‘Samathuva Pongal’ festival featuring colourful rangoli patterns and cooking Pongal atom successful a caller pot, successful the beingness of customers and staff.
Rajadurai Venkatesan, Branch Manager, Reverend S. Albert, Rector and parish clergyman of the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, and N. Ravi, Vice-Principal of Vivekananda Government Higher Secondary School, were among those who participated.
