text: Festivals Festivals in the city include, a floral festival of Bathukamma being celebrated by women of the city, worshiping the goddess with different flowers for nine days. The women carry their Bathukamma to the nearest temple of their locality, then they clap, sing and dance rhythmically around the Bathukamma. Along with Bathukamma, Bonalu is also declared as a state festival on 15 June 2014. Other festivals are, Sammakka Saralamma Jatara (Medaram Jatara), a popular religious congregation in the honour of Goddess at Medaram of Warangal district.
  Cuisine
  The cuisine of the city is mainly of Deccan dishes. Breakfast items include Chapati and Puri. Rice with a variety of curries including curd is consumed as the main meal.
  Notable people
  Anandhi, film actress
  Tharun Bhascker, film director and actor
  Chakri, music director
  Chandrabose, lyricist
  Daasarathi, poet
  Rudrama Devi, the only woman to rule over Telugu region
  Manisha Eerabathini, playback singer
  Arjun Erigaisi, chess grandmaster
  Kothapalli Jayashankar, professor
  Manju Latha Kalanidhi journalist
  Nand Kishore, cricketer
  Nerella Venu Madhav, impressionist and ventriloquist
  Pothana, poet
  Chukka Ramaiah, educationist
  Kaloji Narayana Rao, poet
  P. V. Narasimha Rao, former Prime Minister of India
  Eesha Rebba, film actress
  Rudradeva (r. c. 1158-1195), the first Kakatiya king who ruled parts of the present-day Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
  Palkuriki Somanatha
  Sandeep Reddy Vanga, film director