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Pongal celebrations 2014 at Tamil Nadu House, New Delhi. Tamil Nadu Principal Resident Commissioner Jasbir Singh Bajaj, Special Representative to Government of Tamil Nadu SKT Jakkaiyyan and Deputy Resident commissioner Chinnadurai and other officials graced the Pongal celebrations. Pongal is a harvest festival celebrated by Tamil people at the end of the harvest season. Pongal is a four day festival which usually takes place from January 13 to 16 in the Gregorian calendar i.e., the last day of the Tamil month Maargazhi to the third day of Tamil month Thai. It is one of the most important festivals celebrated by the Tamil people in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry and Sri Lanka. In Tamil, the word Pongal means "overflowing" which signifies abundance a