Culture
Major festivals observed at Siliguri include Durga puja Dasain, Ganesh puja, Laxmi puja, Saraswati puja, Dipawali, Bhai tika etc. Baishaki mela is one of the oldest mela in Siliguri. The fashion week during winters is celebrated for entertainment. Various concerts that continue from mid-October to mid-December are organised by local clubs.
A lot of fairs and carnivals take place in Siliguri. The famous fairs in Siliguri are Baishakhi Mela, Hast Shilp Mela, Book Fair, Lexpo Fair. Most of the fairs happens in Kanchenjunga Stadium.
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Famous quotes containing the word culture:
“The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man’s culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)