Culture and Lifestyle
With the culture and traditions of ancient Vedic Civilization (known as Hinduism) and its principles, Farrukhabad region had a place for all religions, castes, sects and creeds. Farrukhabad is known for its diverse culture. Religious faiths such as Islam, Christianity and Sikhism lead a harmonious, peaceful existence.
Language and Festivals
Hindi is the main language of communication in the city while Urdu is the other widely spoken language that can be can be noticed in this city. The famous Hindi poet Mahadevi Varma was born in this city. Most of the Muslims in the city speak Urdu as their mother tongue, though they are fluent in Hindi. The culture is vibrant with many festivals (that have been celebrated over thousands of years). These festivals observed with great pomp and splendour are: Deepavali, Holi, Rama Navami, Sankranti, Shivaratri, Navratri, Vijaya Dashami, Ekadasi, Karthika Purnima. Also, noticeable are festivals include Christmas, Eid ul-Fitr, Muharram, Ramadan.
City Lifestyle
The city's lifestyle has a mixture of both urban and rural with some cosmopolitan element. Like any typical Indian city, the majority of the population is from middle class and lower-middle-class families. With decent cost of living and most basic amenities readily available, the city has a balanced lifestyle. Farrukhabad is known for its fusion of traditional Indian and Western cultures. Locals wear both Indian style and Western style clothing. The common clothing for women is a Saree, Salwar and for men its Shirt, Trousers and Dhoti-Kurta.
Read more about this topic: Farrukhabad
Famous quotes containing the words culture and/or lifestyle:
“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)
“The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped out of—career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)