River Drive
Correcting the name of Marine Drive
Nikita Gupta
Half knowledge is always harmful. People have copied the name 'marine drive' from Mumbai but missed the very basic fact that there is sea and so the name is ma...
Walter Burley Griffin
An Architect Lost in Lucknow
If you have never heard the name of Walter Burley Griffin, the nineteenth-century American architect, you are not the only one. For decades, the city of Nawabs (Lucknow is common...
Karamat Button House
Unique institution which is making everyone tied
Midhat Ullah Hasani
Could you ever think that a shop selling buttons could foster a relationship between two countries. Specially when they happen to be warrin...
Rudauli Shareef
A Unique Qasba of Awadh Famous for Sufism& Urdu Literature
Dr. Sehba Ali
Rudauli is a Qasba in Uttar Pradesh which formerly belonged to District Barabanki but now to District Faizabad. It is approximately...
Nayantara Sahgal
Unflinching Faith In Gandhian Ideology
Dr. Aniqua Sadia
Nayantara Sahgal, a brilliant novelist and an eminent political columnist was born on May 10, 1927 in Allahabad. She is the second of the three daught...
Chhannu Lal Dilgeer
Ganga – Jamuni Tehzeeb in Marsiya
“Abid Se Yeh Baatein Abhi Karti Thi Woh Dilgeer,
Jo Ahl-e Jafa Aa Gaye Karne Lage Taqreer”
Atif Hanif
Marsiya is an elegy of the dead; however it is mostly confined to ...
Soz Khwan – Jyoti Swaroop Pandey
Love of Hazrat Imam Hussain needs no religion
Ibrahim Ali Khan
Mr. Jyoti Swaroop Pandey had his schooling at the Campion School, Mumbai, and at the age of 23, post graduated in Economics from the University o...
Marsiya Khwan – Syed Haider Nawab Jafri
Lucknow is keeping this art alive
“Bazm Ki Har Har Qadm Par Kar Rahe Hain Rehbari,
Marsiya Padhna Sikhate Hain Janab Jafri"
Atif Hanif
Syed Haider Nawab Jafri born on 5th July 1940 is rightly known as '...
Pandit Birju Maharaj
How Lucknow Graced the World, With Ustad ji
Natalia Hildner
The performing arts are perhaps one of the last pretexts where the width and the depth of our subconscious can unleash themselves without fear of ce...