Happy Pongal everyone! It is impossible for me to describe the awesome festival that is Pongal in concise terms but let me just say that it is awesome like Deepavali/Diwali minus the fireworks, plus cows, bigger kolam and sugarcane!
Anyway, I was surprised to find out that today is also the new Tamil New Year's day! If you are as confounded as I was, I suggest you read up, because apparently this was last year's news.
So who decides when the Tamil New Year starts? Apparently, it is the Tamil Nadu government! I can't fathom the logic behind this and it feels like some western government making October the start of the year. Aren't there Tamils in other countries as well - like Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka? Do they switch their calendars as well because the government that governs the Tamil majority decided to change the Tamil calendar?
Excuse me while I make sense of this madness...
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