Uttar Pradesh Tourism
The Way Forward
Shaheer A. Mirza
What pulls in a tourist to a certain destination, the reply would be as simple as it could be. It is entirely the taste and choice of a tourist to pick and choose the place of...
The Journey of Urdu Poetry Through Ages
Tribute to the wordsmiths of Lucknow
Dilli Jo Ek Shahar Tha Aalam Mein Intekhab
Rehte Thay Jahan Muntakhab Hi Rozgaar Ke
The troubles at Delhi towards the end of eighteenth century and beginning of...
Central Methodist Church
Beseeching the blessing
Uttam Singh
Central Methodist, as evident with its name, is a protestant Church under the episcopal area of Methodist Church in India, Lucknow Regional Conference. It is located on Can...
Literature Of The Other Kind
A treatise on the common language spoken by die-hard Lucknowites
Syed M. Rizwan
Rangbaaz' wore metal-framed sunglasses eight hours a day and seven days a week. The silver-coated metal bracelet chain, forever ...
Dying Libraries
Will A Nation That Stops Reading Eventually Stop Thinking?
Akansha
Gone are the days when one visits library for references and guide. In fact library culture is gradually dying in the current scenario, not o...
Bawarchi Tola
A Legacy of Master Chefs
Ahmad Irfan
In the fading portrait of Lucknow's etiquette there is no shade, which has not been filled. No aspect is there on which writers have not written their bit. Now if anything...
Drawing Room Libraries
Indecent Exploitation of a Genuine Book
I’m delighted to have picked the topic that has always irritated me from core of my thought process and something that always provoked me to explore, what prompts people...
Safia Akhtar
A Candle in the Wind
Safia Akhtar who died prematurely at the age of thirty-seven in 1953 needs no introduction in Urdu literary circles. But to those not well- versed in Urdu literature, she can be introduced...
Prof. Mahdi Hasan
The Man who put Lucknow on Medicinal Map
Akansha
Prof. Mahdi Hasan was born on March 21, 1936 in a village Gadayan, Akbarpur (then in Faizabad, now in Ambedkar Nagar), in UP. His father, Jawad Husain, was Teh...