<h1>Cultural preservation reinforced through student-led Pongal fete showcasing folk arts, traditional practices and village-market recreations.</h1> A college organized a large-scale Pongal fete recreating a village market where over four thousand students in traditional dress performed regional folk dances, operated food and craft stalls, and conducted the communal Pongal ritual, presented as an institutional effort to preserve and transmit cultural traditions through student-led experiential activities.