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Bhagalpur cuisine
Bhagalpur culture
The Bhagalpur city has a rich and an antique cultural past which
it is still preserving. A vast variations in monuments, paintings,
artifacts, music, folk dance forms and folklores can be witnessed
here. A number of renowned writers, poets, artists and musicians
hail from this city. The variations in the art forms as observed in
different eras in the past is refreshed for the onlookers in the
Bhagalpur Museum which contains the cultural representations of
the past. Paika and Jhijhian happen to be one of the oldest and
major dance form of this region. A number of folk songs are
performed by the women of this region and the major ones are
Ropni and Kazri. Bishahri Puja is one of the major festival
celebrated here where the women sing folk songs and worship
goddess Bishahari.