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The Kishore Kumar Samman honours work in cinema, in acting, direction, music or allied crafts, and it is named after the singer and actor Kishore Kumar, who was born at Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh, so the state attaches his name to its film honour.

The Tansen Samman is presented at the Tansen Samaroh held every year at Gwalior, near the tomb of Tansen, the singer of Akbar’s court who came from that region, and it honours work in Hindustani classical music.

The Kalidas Samman, instituted in 1980, moves between these four fields from year to year, the plastic arts covering painting and sculpture, and it belongs with the Kalidas Samaroh held at Ujjain, the city connected with the poet Kalidas.

The Vishwamitra Award honours coaches of Madhya Pradesh whose trainees have won medals at the national or international level, and the name is taken from Vishwamitra, the teacher of Rama, which fits an award for teaching rather than for playing.

The Eklavya Award is the junior sports honour of Madhya Pradesh and is given each year to young sportspersons under nineteen who have done well at the national level, the name recalling the young archer of the Mahabharata who taught himself.

It is the highest sports honour of Madhya Pradesh and is given to outstanding senior sportspersons of the state, usually for performance at the national and international level in the preceding year.

The old gymnastic art in which the performer does poses on a fixed wooden pole, a hanging pole or a rope was declared the state sport of Madhya Pradesh in 2013, and the state trains players in it through schools and academies.

At Bhedaghat near Jabalpur the Narmada runs in a narrow gorge between cliffs of marble, and a short distance upstream it drops as the Dhuandhar falls, the smoke cascade, so named for the spray thrown up by the fall.

The station at Bhopal that was called Habibganj was rebuilt with private participation, the first station in the country to be developed in that way, and it was renamed after Rani Kamlapati, the Gond queen connected with the history of Bhopal.

Mahakaleshwar stands at Ujjain on the bank of the Shipra, where the bhasma aarti is performed with ash, and Omkareshwar stands on the island of Mandhata in the Narmada in Khandwa district, where the 108 foot Statue of Oneness of Adi Shankaracharya was unveiled in 2023.

The tomb of the Malwa ruler Hoshang Shah at Mandu, the old Mandavgarh in Dhar district, is counted as the first building in India raised in marble, and later builders of marble monuments are said to have studied it.

Dhupgarh is a peak beside Pachmarhi in the Satpura, and at a little over thirteen hundred metres it is the highest point of Madhya Pradesh; visitors climb it for the view of the sunset across the ranges.

Pachmarhi, in the Satpura range in Narmadapuram district, is the only hill station of the state and is called the queen of the Satpura; the forest around it is the Satpura National Park and Tiger Reserve, and the whole area forms a biosphere reserve.

Bhimbetka lies in the Vindhya hills in Raisen district, not far from Bhopal, and its natural shelters carry paintings made over thousands of years, from hunting scenes of the Stone Age to later figures of horses and riders.

The temples built by the Chandela kings at Khajuraho in Chhatarpur district were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1986, the earliest of the three sites of Madhya Pradesh to be listed, and the Kandariya Mahadeva temple is the largest of the group.

The airport of Indore is named after Devi Ahilyabai Holkar, the Holkar queen who ruled from Maheshwar, and it handles more passengers than any other airport of the state, in keeping with Indore’s place as the commercial capital.

Itarsi, in Narmadapuram district, is where the Delhi to Chennai trunk line crosses the routes running east towards Jabalpur and west towards Khandwa and Mumbai, so a very large share of the long distance trains of central India pass through it and change direction, engine or crew there.

The West Central Railway, created in 2003 when the new railway zones were carved out, has its headquarters at Jabalpur and works through three divisions, Jabalpur, Bhopal and Kota, so Madhya Pradesh is the only state that holds both the zone office and one of its divisions in the same…

The scheme, begun in 2020, distributes napkins every month through anganwadi workers and self-help groups to women and adolescent girls of families below the poverty line, the aim being both health and school attendance.

The Chief Minister’s Window, opened in 2014, takes complaints from citizens at district offices and online, tracks them against a time limit and reports to the Chief Minister’s office, so it is the grievance channel of the state government.