I feel we are making a mistaken judgment here. Pongal is a celebration for rich harvest to be made by the real farmers who toil on the farmlands and produce food. Today, the very basis of agriculture has become so twisted that the benefits of farm production go to every middleman but the actual producer is not benefited much. Therefore, this celebration should be done by all those agricultural producers only; consumers like us need not celebrate, because even if there is complete famine in India, we will pay and buy Chinese and other rice, milk and curds, at enormous prices!