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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“There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)