Led by MDR Foundation Co-Founder Mr. Maadri Prithviraj, the event seamlessly intertwined tradition with modern sensibilities.

Its name comes from the Tamil word pongu, meaning “to boil over”. Almost all Tamil homes I know, even the most cosmopolitan ones, prepare a sweet pongal known as sakkarai pongal in Tamil. It is almost ...

Chewing on sugar cane, digging into delicious sweet pongal, and catching a Test at Chepauk were all part of January festivities in the Madras of yore. The Pongal Test was very much part of the ...

Perhaps it was. As it happens, a commercial masala film from that time has now emerged as the biggest winner among the prestigious Pongal releases in Tamil. Madha Gaja Raja (MGR), the film ...

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