 Chennai Online | Chithirai or Thai: The New Year debate Times of India - CHENNAI: Was Sunday your last Tamil New Year's day in the month of Chithirai, now that the state government has announced Thai (mid-January) as the first month of the Tamil year and Pongal as New Year's day? Lankan Tamils reject Karunanidhi's diktat on Tamil New Year TN bans new year rites, priests fume |