A three-day harvest festival, Pongal is one of the gayest events in South India. In Tamil Nadu, the newly harvested rice is ceremonially cooked. In Mysore, the festival is called Sankranti. In villages and towns, cows and bullocks are gaily painted and decorated and fed on Pongal (a sweet preparation of rice). In the evening, the cattle are led out in procession to the beat of drums and music. In some towns of the South, the festival is climaxed by a kind of bull-fight in which young men try to wrest bundles of currency notes from the horns of a ferocious bull. At Tenali in Andhra Pradesh, there is a thrilling cart-race.