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Pongal is a four-day harvest celebration. Different South Indian communities celebrate these four days in different ways. Most commonly, this festival falls in mid-January and is more of an ‘Indian Thanksgiving’. During Pongal, people…

The Celts in Ireland observed the Samhain festival on October 31 more than two thousand years ago, when the dead made one last trip to the planet before the new year began. Old fires were put out, and new ones were started. When thousands…