Happy Pongal!

Another interesting holiday took the office by storm; this one celebrates a good harvest and is called Pongal. In the lobby, people were creating a painting. They sketched an outline with chalk, then were adding color by rubbing it with what looked like sand.

A second, important part of the holiday was handing out sugar cane. I was given a piece of what appears to be a stick. Apparently you can peel the outer edges and chew the inside, and it'll be very sweet. I couldn't figure it out for the life of me - and nobody could show me how to do it, either. So I stashed my sugar cane in a drawer. The people in the picture below are some of the people I work with - especially Venkat, on the right, who works in accounting.