Culture
The city celebrates all the major festivals of India. There are some local festivals such as the colorful Rout Dance (November).
The town has been the home of some famous literary personalities including Sri Srikant Verma (Hindi), Sri Bimal Mitra (Bengali)and Sri Amrit Lal Dubey great writer in Hindi Literature and first Issury Ratna winner in Madhyapradesh.
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Famous quotes containing the word culture:
“The fact remains that the human being in early childhood learns to consider one or the other aspect of bodily function as evil, shameful, or unsafe. There is not a culture which does not use a combination of these devils to develop, by way of counterpoint, its own style of faith, pride, certainty, and initiative.”
—Erik H. Erikson (1904–1994)
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—Marcus Garvey (1887–1940)
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—Michael Harrington (1928–1989)