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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Fri Jan 15, 2016, 05:18 AM Jan 2016

Happy Pongal, guys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_Pongal

I hope everybody in DU finds a better spring this year. Love you all!

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Happy Pongal, guys (Original Post) Recursion Jan 2016 OP

A few years ago, on my way to volunteering in Sri Lanka, I had a layover in Singapore Tanuki Jan 2016 #1

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1. A few years ago, on my way to volunteering in Sri Lanka, I had a layover in Singapore

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Fri Jan 15, 2016, 08:44 AM

Jan 2016

during Pongal. I had never heard of it, but this celebration of harvest and new beginnings is joyously celebrated by the Tamil community there.

http://www.discoversingapore.org/DS/DS_Pongal_2010.htm

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