No AAM Aadmi
Padmashri Kalimullah Khan, mango master introduces TLO to his magic tree in the dussehri mango belt of Malihabad
For Kalimullah Khan his mango tree is his most precious teacher in life. The Khan has been nursi...
Lyrical Lucknow
Master poet Munawar Rana mulls over Lucknow as it once was
Munawar grew up loving poetry but it took him a while to express his feelings in verse.
When he did take up the pen, it was to move away from the...
Malihabad is not only about mangoes
TLO explores the shair-e inquilab, the revolutionary poet 'Josh' from the mango growing town of Malihabad
Shabbir Hasan Khan 'Josh Malihabadi' is one of the most prominent poets of the 20th century and a legen...
Mad about Mangoes!
Once upon a time there was no mango in Malihabad. In fact till a few centuries ago there was no Malihabad either. Today, it is the largest of the 14 mango belts in Uttar Pradesh (UP), owned mostly by descendant...
Come with me to the land of enchantment!
Mehru Jaffer on the delightfully dramatic, but dying art of the dastango
Lucknow is a city where fine speech is sown in its soil and sprinkled in its air. The tradition of the art of speaking is strong here....
Spinning stories he will!
Saira Mujtaba chats up Mahmood Farooqui, dastango famous for transporting listeners to the magical world of tilism.
Before there was paper and pen there was the word. And story tellers around the world make ...
Saawan ka mahina…!
As Rana Safvi waits for the monsoons to thunder down, she goes back to her childhood in Lucknow
Kitne dilkash hain mere mulk ke mausam,
inn mein Husn ki baat karein, ishq par israar karein
Nur e Mehboob s...
Azad’s Pledge!
Jawed Naqvi revisits Abul Kalam Azad's India wins Freedom
The lady at the adjoining table of the club restaurant gazed steadily at Maulana Azad's autobiography I was scouring, as she licked the remains of th...
The pitter patter of many raindrops…
Vocalist Dr. Kumud Diwan writes what the rim jhim of saawan means to her when sulag sulag jaye man...
Dark, encircling clouds herald the advent of the rainy season and cast a magical spell on the human psych...
The Forgotten Modi!
Nobody seems to remember Syed Modi anymore. For all those who don't know anything about Modi, it maybe recalled that the 1962 born boy was one of the most brilliant badminton players to be born in the country.
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