Kadalekai Parishe
| Kadalekai Parishe ಕಡಲೆಕಾಯಿ ಪರಿಷೆ | |
|---|---|
Basavanagudi Kadalekai Parishe 2025 (top) 9th Malleshwaram Kadalekai Parishe 2025 (bottom) | |
| Status | active |
| Genre | Annual festival |
| Venue | Basavanagudi and Malleshwaram of Bangalore |
| Location | Bangalore |
| Coordinates | 12°56′31″N 77°34′05″E / 12.942058249082486°N 77.56810371691687°E Basavanagudi |
| Country | India |
| Years active | From 2017 |
Kadalekai Parishe (Kannada: ಕಡಲೆಕಾಯಿ ಪರಿಷೆ), is an annual groundnut fair which takes place in Basavanagudi and Malleshwaram of Bangalore. This is a two to three-day fair. Farmers from other parts of the state bring their first crop of groundnuts to offer to Basavanna. Also, there will be numerous stalls of Groundnuts, with all different varieties such as, freshly plucked groundnuts, fried groundnuts, with shell, unshelled, boiled groundnuts and many. Apart from the Groundnuts, there are numerous stalls in the fair, selling Bangles, Bags, traditional toys and clay trinkets, plastic and glass dolls, Mehndi tattoos. There are a variety of food items, such as Bajji, Bonda, Batthaas (Coloured sugar candies), Kalyana seve or Bendu (Sugar coated gram) and Coloured sodas on sale during the fair. Over 200 groundnut vendors were benefited and the total plastic consumption at the fair came down by over 60%.