The Shining Blades

The Cutting Edge Mascot of Awadhi Culture Gauri Bharadwaj Lucknow, the 'city of nawabs', well it wouldn't be wrong to call it the 'heart of Uttar Pradesh'. The city has offerings for everyone. Not only the la...

Bonds of Love

Overcoming Traditions, Overcoming Religions Nikita Gupta The morning wait in shining new clothes, hands adorned with henna holding lit and ritual thalis, the day of rakshabandhan begins thus but its preparati...

The Binding Words

Chain Letters Across the Divided Borders Farida Jamal In the early 1950s, most people took the over land route when travelling from Uttar Pradesh to East Pakistan. The journey to Dhaka via Kolkata involved se...

Friends from the Other Side

Hardships Faced in Unison Dr. Sehba Ali The partition of India in 1947 was, perhaps, the most excruciating pain that Mother India endured when her children senselessly massacred one another in the name of rel...

Christian College

Over a Century of Delivering Excellence Excelling in all fields and giving all round experience to students along with equal emphasis on moral education, the college sets benchmark for newer institutions, like...

Shivmurti

Leading Voice in Contemporary Fiction Siddhant Agarwal Acontemporary author whose writings depicted the sufferings, predicament and exhortation of the rural folk, peasants, laborers, the women and the oppress...

Lucknow’s Culture In The Sky

The Ancient Custom of Training Pigeons Sumbul Zehra There has always been talk of setting the beloved free, but with a heavy heart for the possibility of them not returning ever. Still when one can't think of...

The Heritage Arc

Concrete Steps Towards a Dream “Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision...

Pen, Reforms, Freedom

What Premchand Wanted to Bring About... Art is not merely an imitation of reality. Though art depicts reality it is not the reality. Its merit lies in that it seems to be a reality. So says the great literary ...

Monuments of Allahabad

Romance With History On Ganga's Banks "I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments." - Jean-AndrÈ de Luc Sehar Siddiqui As the sands of time pass by, there are very few things t...