This 25th anniversary of the mela sees unique dishes, such as pizzas, pastas, berliners, jalebis and jamuns, all made with the avarekalu beans, otherwise known as hyacinth beans.
In Karnataka, Makara Sankranthi is celebrated as a harvest festival called 'suggi habba' in Kannada, where seasonal crops like paddy, ber, sugarcane, hyacinth beans, bajra, brinjal, ridge gourd, and ...