Many buy pots with decorative designs to cook sweet rice for Ponggal

All kinds of everything: Shoppers buying items for the Ponggal fest at Jalan Lahat.

AS Indians prepare for Ponggal, which falls today, earthen pots were snapped up at Little India in Jalan Lahat recently.

Shoppers had the choice to either buy the plain pots or those with colourful designs.