The Kadlekai Parishe (groundnut festival) is a cultural tradition of Bangalore that has survived for over four centuries. One of the city’s oldest cultural events, it takes place on the last Monday of the Karthikaa month at the Bull Temple Road in Basavangudi . This year there were a lot more people than the last year, by eye witness accounts. Amoghavarsha visited the festival and snapped up these moments.
Groundnut stalls, heaps of groundnuts, that bring flavor and name to the fair!
This is the cool future teller! Different shapes and sizes of robot dolls with some pre-recorded future messages continue to be popular.
More groundnut stalls.
The Basavanna temple festivities, the highlight of the fair, The queue for this extended almost half a kilometre.
There were a variety of small idols that were sold this time. Whatever was up for sale, someone was there to buy for sure.
A toy seller. Latest in his inventory were fighter planes and Barbie cell phones.
Bindis were selling like hot cakes. It was a sight to see women dragging their husbands to the store and the men twitch.
The most famous stalls were, of course, the ones with the bangles, this time the trend was of these glittering plastic ones.
Plenty of people, plenty of movement.
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Putting huge photos of local leaders against the backdrop of these ancient temples is just not correct. Peanuts were only a small part of the whole fair. Thanks for nice piks.
Lovely to see the images and colours. Articles on such events should always be photofeatures!
Wonderful!