Pongal, a four-day harvest festival dedicated to Lord Sun, was celebrated with much fanfare on January 09 at Madurai’s Meenakshi Government Women’s College ahead of their vacations. The Pongal festival will start on January 15 and will continue till January 18. As the auspicious season of Pongal arrives, students of a college in Madurai celebrated the festival with utmost joy. The girls wore traditional sarees and danced gracefully to traditional beats inside the college campus. They also prepared sweets and other delicacies for the occasion.