A festival of groundnuts

We had just been to the "Kadalekkai parishe" (or the groundnut festival), which is an annual festival in Bangalore. Had a great time there. Almost one kilo meter of Bull Temple Road (from near the southern side of Bull Temple to the Ramakrishna Ashram) was decorated with bright lights and it was groundnuts (also called peanuts) wherever you looked ! The street was full of small time vendors selling all varieties of groundnuts, fancy stuff, toys, food, clothes and so on. We could see brisk business happening. Hundreds of thousands of people were moving around enjoying the festival - all age groups. Finding space to walk in the road amongst a sea of people was a challenge, but we enjoyed the time. This 500 year old (I am told it started during Kempe Gowda's time) festival is entirely around groundnuts - with farmers from villages around Bangalore bringing their groundnut produce to the Bull Temple. You get to buy groundnuts (mostly with the shell) of different types - raw ones,  boiled ones, roasted ones, spicy ones, fried ones and more in other snack combinations. You cannot get enough of it. We walked the entire length of the fair soaking in the spirit.