Women prepare food on the occasion of Pongal festival, in Bengaluru.
Devotees prepare rice dishes to offer to the Hindu sun god as they attend Pongal celebrations early morning on a roadside in Mumbai, India.
Hindu priests pour rice to cook pongal during the harvest festival of Thai Pongal, a thanksgiving ceremony in which the farmers thank the spirits of nature, the sun and the farm animals for their assistance in providing a successful harvest, at a Hindu temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
A woman cooks rice on a street during celebrations of harvest festival of Pongal, at Dharavi slum in Mumbai.
Devotees prepare rice dishes to offer to the Hindu sun god as they attend Pongal celebrations early morning on a roadside in Mumbai, India.