With VV Puram ward corporator Vani V Rao objecting to organising the avarekai mela, Sri Vasavi Condiments, the organisers of the mela, are in a dilemma whether to go ahead as per plan or not.

BENGALURU: Around 25 Hindu activists who had petitioned police not to allow Muslim traders to carry out business near Subramanya Temple in VV Puram were detained in the wee hours of Tuesday ahead ...

Vasavi Condiments and Vasavi Chatnis, the 22-year-old business, after pioneering the incandescent avarebele – or AB as the coupons say – jalebi, has added the jahangir as well.

It was started in 2000 by Geetha Shivakumar, proprietor of Vasavi Condiments, to help farmers get a good price for their yield, with no middlemen. Dishes like avarekai dosa, jalebi, laddoo, rice ...