A day before the ‘pongala festival’ when the entire city was filled with such terracotta pots for sale. City just turned a mall for mud pot sale! The sellers came in all variety..some were chirpy, some were charged and some were really sad!
A glimpse of the Pongala festival 2008 is here.
On the occassion of annual Pongala festival held in the city of Trivandrum.This gathering of women with their cooking pots make a special ‘pongala offering’ to the goddess Attukalama. This festival won the world guiness award for recording the highest attendance of women, 1.5 million (15 lakhs) in 1997. Ever since the number of attendees have been on the rise! The city was filled with smoke when millions of stoves were fired at the same time. Despite heat, smoke and dust, women just went on..