'Habba' in Kannada means 'Festival'. The third edition of annual cultural event, Bangalore Habba will be celebrated from December 2 [Friday] to December 11, 2005 [Sunday]. This year it will be bigger, better to mark the 'Suvarna Karnataka'. Over 2750 artistes from Karnataka and 250 artistes from acros India will participate in Bangalore Habba. Habba will spread the festival acros towns in Karnataka such as Dharwad, Chikamangaluru, Mangalore, Tumkur and Mandya to create awarenes about different performing artts and share euphoric experience of the Habba with people living outside Bangalore.