As usual, there were tonnes of food stalls and hardly any dustbins around! We never loved being clean, right?
Save money, one bit when you can!
COtton canDy!! Yummy!!
Groundnuts!! how much can you eat?
Monday, December 03, 2007
kadlekai parshe - groundnuts fair!
Yes! This monday was a south bangalore festival, the kadlekai parshe. Tonnes of groundnut are sold on the streets of good old Basavangudi. This has been a tradition of many years now. It - similar to other things in India - has a story tagging along too. Basavangudi gets it's name from the big Basava (Bull) that was tormenting this place. Known for it's groundnut fields this region was frequented by a bull which the locals one day captured and pegged down. This bull also happened to be shiva's means of transport and hence they build a temple to pay respects to the lord and thats how the bull temple came to exist. Every year on the last monday of karthika masa (ref. hindu calender) there is a fair held here and the local produce, mainly groundnuts are sold. This has now extended to puffed rice, some sweets like bendu batthas and various other toys and household articles by the local crafts people. It draws huge crowds, is really dirt cheap and, has a totally - oh so banglorean - feel to it. :-)
As usual, there were tonnes of food stalls and hardly any dustbins around! We never loved being clean, right?
Save money, one bit when you can!
COtton canDy!! Yummy!!
Groundnuts!! how much can you eat?
As usual, there were tonnes of food stalls and hardly any dustbins around! We never loved being clean, right?
Save money, one bit when you can!
COtton canDy!! Yummy!!
Groundnuts!! how much can you eat?
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I think India is the only country (or may be one of the few countries in the world) where you can have fun despite the fact that you don't have money...
It is a huge mass of hundreds of people just flocking to kadlekai parshe, regardless of whether they are rich or poor and just enjoying a strange spirit. A spirit embodied in their (or "our" can we say? :)) souls from ages...
:-)
Ya I know... come to think of it, we sometimes forget in this strange world of ours that we can have fun without having a lot of money...
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