Pongal CelebrationsP

Pongal being cooked

Ameen of Class 7 welcoming the children for the celebrations

Pongal O Pongal - LKG

The old and the new.. note the RBK Tee :) Class I

Village belles :-) with pots of pongal walk by a sad farmer who has none! - Class II

Modern kids groove to village beats ! Class III

Traditional sing song

Girls swirl to pongal music

Crow - Joining in to taste the Pongal

A rough draft - Rangoli in progress

 The finished product. Rangoli

A rangoli message... Global warming !!

Whoops... end of the game ! Joyful Kabbadi :-)

Students and staff at Gurukulam celebrated the harvest festival ‘Pongal’ in style. Kids from kindergarten to class VII entertained the school with celebratory scenes of pongal from the villages to the city. The traditional mingled with the modern as girls in silk sarees with flowers in their hair danced to folk tunes and boys in jeans and T’s jigged to the latest mod numbers – all sung by the children themselves. Little kids dressed as Cows, tossed their heads to shouts of pongal O pongal. Teachers cooked pongal ( a mix of rice, pulses, jaggery and spices) the traditional way over a wood fire which was relished by all.

The boys competed heatedly for honours at Kabadi while the girls made beautiful (rangoli) patterns on the ground using coloured powders, flowers and earthen lamps.  It was difficult to judge the best so full honours were given to all.