THE Little India enclave in George Town, Penang, was packed with Indians doing their last-minute shopping for the four-day Ponggal festival which starts today.
Makeshift stalls have mush-roomed on the streets, selling festive essentials such as stalks of sugar cane, mango leaves, turmeric leaves and ponggal panai (clay pots).
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