Pongal Festival @ Little India (18th Jan 2015)

Google from the website about Pongal 2015 as follows :

Pongal 2015 Date

When: Thursday, 14th January 2015

Where: Karnataka and Tamil Nadu

In Southern India the end of the harvest is observed as a four-day festival called Pongal which begins on January 14th and last till January 17th every year with the auspicious time to celebrate Pongal being from 7 am to 9 am. The Pongal festival is one of the biggest festivals celebrated in South India and is a thanksgiving for the plentiful harvest received.

The Pongal festival is celebrated with great pomp and show and people clean and decorate their houses with flowers and rangoli (kolam) and buy new clothes. This is when farmers bring newly harvested rice home and feed their cattle a rice dish called Pongal- from where the festival got its name, and is dedicated to Lord Surya.

Pongal festival is also celebrated as Tamil Nadu’s New Year Day. The Pongal festival also happens to coincide with Makar Sankranti that is a harvest festival celebrated in northern and other parts of India. In other regions it is known as Lohri, Bihu, Hadaga, and Poki. The festivities of Pongal also vary to some extent in celebration.

A walk at Little India on Sunday after Church service. 

This street used to be a road for vehicles, quite long didn't go Little India already, now they had transform it into a walking street.

A stall selling flowers

Can someone tell me what is this called, understand they use this to carry pot of milk during festivals, pls correct me if i am wrong.

 

Kavadi (if i am not wrong)

Bags

There's a stage there, thought there will be some performance, but saw some people there, throwing water at each other.

Was disappointed not to see any cows there, ask a security uncle, he reply that the cows were taken back previous day which is Saturday.