Thai Pongal is the first festival for the year 2025, which Tamil people all over the world, including Sri Lankans, celebrate together with great enthusiasm. Therefore, first of all, I wish to extend my best wishes for a fruitful, joyful and spiritually healthy Thai Pongal.
The main purpose of the Thai Pongal festival is to express gratitude to the sun for its role in enhancing the harvest, to acknowledge the contribution of rain in making the land more fertile, and to show appreciation for the cattle and animals that help ensure a better harvest.
Our Tamil community, who are always connected with God and nature, will definitely celebrate this festival full of heart. They offer the new harvest harvested from their fields to the sun, the god they believe and to the other gods, considering it as an honorable responsibility associated with their lives.
According to the traditional calendar month of the Tamil people, January is called “Thai masaya”. It is a festival with many colorful cultural elements. The yard of the house shaped by the beautiful “kolam” pattern of Tamil women who made cleanliness of their home a priority, is an extremely beautiful and sign that should not be forgotten in this Pongal festival.
May the wonderful ”Thai Pongal” festival that comes to the world in the year 2025 be a new beginning, free from the dangers of oppression with support, equality, prosperity, and kind-hearted people who distribute Pongal milk rice to the whole country regardless of caste!
