Pongal festival

Here comes the month of "thai" in thamizh calendar and also pongal, the first day of that month on which tamil people prays to the god of sun by preparing varieties of food with sugarcane and decorate their houses with young leaves of cocunut tree and with colorful rangoli's. It is considered to be a thanksgiving festival to the god of sun. And the next day is mattu pongal which is a day to thank the cows at home as it is helps farmers in agriculture. During that day all the cows will be washed and decorated with lot of colors and will be given special food for the cow. It is a government holiday in tamilnadu and same festival is celebrated as sankranti in other states.